Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which she had given the place of honor by her plate. I said to her as one astounded: 'Is that really your very own?' And she saw how I envied her and immediately placed it between us with the words: 'It is yours and mine...
...year-old prospector named Ernest Johnson started it all. In two years of experience with radioactive ores around the Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, he had noticed that where there was uranium there were also cobalt and nickel. Figuring that the converse should be true, he packed a Geiger counter and pushed up the Roxey Creek valley, 120 miles north of Vancouver, where fallen rock bearing cobalt "bloom" lay in the creek...
Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
...experienced what I am told is the customary sense of embarrassment at having a fellow-creature act as one's beast of burden, but mine was such a wiry specimen, weighing as he did well over 80 Ibs. and amazingly fleet for a man of 60 with tuberculosis, that I quickly overcame my compunctions...