Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty Pitheads. Vorkuta is a complex of prison camps, situated in the bleak tundra territory of European Russia on the river Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle, about 1,400 miles northeast of Leningrad. A century ago Czar Nicholas I's advisers suggested to him that he make a colony...
Patent Pending. At week's end, nobody knew how much uranium was in Nowata County-or whether Sam Shepherd might have discovered a practical method of mining uranium by waterflood and filter. Others have tried such a process before-and failed. But it has never been tried as a...
COPPER LODE in Peru, one of the biggest ever found, will be developed by a combine of four big U.S. firms calling themselves the Southern Peru Copper Corp. The new company will be run by American Smelting & Refining Co. with 57¾% of the stock. Others: Cerro de Pasco Corp...
¶ Work was rushing ahead last week on Disney's particular hobbyhorse ("The world's biggest toy," one of his friends called it, "for the world's biggest boy"): an $11 million "permanent World's Fair" set on 160 acres in Anaheim, just 30 minutes from...
At St. Paul's Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., they like to describe their business as "pulling rabbits out of a bottomless hat." To 3M the bottomless hat is its research department, and last week the company pulled out a promising new rabbit. The rabbit: "Scotchply." a tough, laminated plastic...