Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolf Paul, Minister President of Thuringia; Theodor Plivier, longtime Communist writer, whose book called Stalingrad won him Soviet kudos; Jena's Mayor Heinrich Mertens; Mühlhausen's Mayor Heinrich Stuecker; Mine Director Hans Grassman, who had bossed four Soviet workings in Saxony, where 10,000 conscripted Germans were mining for uranium...
With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...
...What about expansion? Ben Moreell reported that the industry was currently engaged in a $1 billion program which would increase capacity by 2,500.000 tons by the end of 1948. Same day, Jones & Laughlin announced a large mine-development program "in order to produce more and better steel"; Columbia Steel, a Big Steel subsidiary, announced plans for a 300,000-ton-a-year sheet-steel mill near Los Angeles...
This "absolute leader" turned out to be Chicago's Reynolds Pen Co., first and foremost exploiter ($20,857,000 sold in two years) of ball-point pens. But why were Chairman "Milton Reynolds and President Franklin Lamb willing to sell this purported gold mine for a song? Reynolds, who rode around the world in 79 hours in his "Bombshell" (TIME, April 28), said that he wanted to free himself "to devote more time to aviation research." Lamb had a different reason. If he and Reynolds died now without their assets in liquid form, he explained, their families might have...
...elaborate, air-conditioned laboratory on Manhattan's East Side to perfect a marketable version of his match. While experimenting, Dr. Ringer dissolved some vinyl-resin plastic in acetone. In working with the solution, he noticed it forming thin-skinned, elastic bubbles. He called Matty. Cried Matty: "A gold mine, pure and simple...