Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From a mining syndicate headed by Baltimore's C. E. Tuttle and onetime General Services Administrator Jess Larson, Cord and associates collected $17 million for their uranium claims near Charley Steen's famed Mi Vida mine (TIME, June 27, 1955) in Utah's Big Indian district, the biggest price ever paid in the U.S. for uranium holdings...
...Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord and his friends paid Johnson $80,000 in cash and royalties that would guarantee him up to $500,000 if the mine paid off. It did, after Cord put $1,750,000 into exploration and drilling...
...John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding where I did not get married...
From the mental hospitals, where reserpine and derivatives of chlorpromazine provided one of the century's great breakthroughs in psychiatry (TIME, March 7, 1955), the use of the tranquilizers has spread to masses of mine-run neurotics and other people vexed with problems and pressures. For a time, when most states permitted an unlimited number of refills for tranquilizer prescriptions, Equanil and Miltown (trade names for meprobamate) were the hottest items in many a big-city pharmacy. The situation became so alarming that states are tightening regulations, putting tranquilizers on the same non-refillable prescription basis as barbiturates...
...boondoggle," called further appropriations "silly." A recent House report had said that of some 700 producers who were supposed to benefit from the program only 49 have actually participated, and the top nine have received 87% of the funds. McKenna added further facts: Kennametal's subsidiary mine, Nevada Scheelite Corp., has taken in $10 million from selling tungsten solely to the U.S. Government. For its own needs, Kennametal, a Pennsylvania tungsten toolmaker, has gone on buying from foreign producers at a far cheaper price...