Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panel with Fairless: University of Virginia's President Colgate W. Darden Jr., onetime governor of Virginia; United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis; New York Herald Tribune's Chairman Whitelaw Reid; Bank of America's Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Procter & Gamble Co.'s Chairman Richard R. Deupree; American Machine & Foundry Co.'s Vice Chairman Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime chief of staff...
...high cost of transporting coal is one reason coal has lost ground to other fuels. While the price of coal at the mine $4.85 a ton; has dropped over the past eight years, the average cost per ton to ship it to market rose from $1.47 in 1948 to $3.24 in 1955, and is still going up. Last week Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., biggest U.S. independent producer, demonstrated a radical new way to cut shipping costs. On an experimental basis, it sent the first coal through a 108-mile, $15 million pipeline designed to carry 1,300,000 tons...
...Algom operation is (the two mines and mills have a daily ore-processing capacity of 6,000 tons, double the largest U.S. operation), their output will be only a fraction of Rio Tinto's eventual production. The company's three Northspan mines ($275 million in government contracts) are set to start producing before the end of 1957; its Milliken Lake mine ($94 million in contracts) by March 1958. Rio Tinto's smaller Pronto mine (1,250 tons of ore daily) was opened in 1955 but ran into production troubles, now being taken care of in an enlargement...
...Blind River field is Rio Tinto's. The mine which many geologists say has probably the biggest (136 million tons) reserve of uranium ore in the Western world is Consolidated Denison Mines Ltd., under the control of Latecomer Steve Roman. He expects to begin production next month, holds $201.2 million in government contracts...
...someone told me Carroll was actually over in the Yard being given the old tour treatment. Sure enough, a black bomb half as long as University Hall was cruising lethally along frosh row, and when I ran up and peeked in a pair of soft blue eyes met mine...