Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the uranium country in the Western states, ore has piled high outside the mines as production outsped the expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...
...Manufacturing Co., of Lewiston, Me., to become president of Burlington Industries Inc. Ruhm, who was on the losing side in the recent proxy fight for control of Bates that was won by Consolidated Textiles' Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...
...repeat to me all her words as I could understand only a very few words which she pronouced very distinctly indeed. A stranger has to be used to her speech before he can under stand all she says. Her voice, however, was not "ghost-like" as a friend of mine suggested. Perhaps it becomes that when she is tired. Another friend has told me that some say that others help her to write her books. When one has the privilege of conversing with her, any such suspicions are dispelled. She has such a keen and really well-informed mind...
...noting some recent remarks of mine about the rewards of reading [May 23], you seem to have opened a veritable sluice gate of correspondence . . . Many of those who wrote appear to think that I was denouncing television . . . This would put me in the unhappy position of the man who was allergic to his own liver . . . There are many programs on television today from which any man can draw profit and delight . . . My plea was for selective viewing and for that sort of balanced intellectual diet that would not forget the essential proteins and vitamins that can be found...
...well aware of the immensity of the problems confronting a President. He doubts whether he or any man has sufficient ability to perform the function of Chief Executive. He thinks it is presumptuous for anyone to insist that he is the man who can. A very liberal friend of mine, experienced in politics on the national level, no longer thinks Stevenson would be the strongest candidate. This friend is convinced that Sen. Symington has more vote appeal than anyone else. Sen. Kefauver still has a following. But he is anathema to the bosses and probably could not be nominated...