Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The trouble lies partly in the overall design of Paint Your Wagon, in its concern with the swarming life-the rise, feminization and decline-of an entire mining town. Though fine for choral or choreographic doings, the crowded cast is cumbrous and untidy for storytelling. For half the evening, moreover...
The news was good, but not good enough. None of the new White Pine or Anaconda production will start until 1954. Before mining begins, Anaconda must build a plant to process its low-grade ore; White Pine must build a steam power plant, railroad connections, mill and smelter facilities, and...
Beaver-busy, Baker moved on to Manhattan, was soon vice-president of a credit company. In 1925, when two former Beaver associates came to him with options on rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual...
He was still only ten when he took his first long trip (to Oregon to live with an uncle) and met his first traveler's disappointment. "The Rocky Mountains," he noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your...
The Shell Game. In his profession, he soon found what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost...