Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torture in the Canyon. Businessman Pick went about prospecting in a businesslike way. He went to the local office of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked a mining engineer named Charles A. Rasor where he should hunt. Rasor walked to a map on the wall and drew a circle around an...
TARIFF INCREASES on lead and zinc, recommended by the Tariff Commission, were rejected by President Eisenhower, who thereby spiked fears that his watch-tariff boost (TIME, Aug. 9) indicated a protectionist trend. To bolster U.S. mining, Ike announced a sharply increased stockpiling program for lead and zinc.
BUSINESS CENSUS will be taken early next year. With an unexpected $8,430,000 appropriation from Congress (TIME, Aug. 9), U.S. Bureau of the Census will poll 3,000,000 business firms to update government statistics on U.S. sales, manufacturing and mining.
Returning from a uranium-prospecting jaunt in the barren countryside of Queens land, Australia one day last month a jeepload of weekend prospectors bogged down in a creek. Four got out to push while a fifth, Timberman Norman McConachie, idly strolled along the creek bank with a Geiger counter. He...
Two years ago Aluminum Co. of America announced a plan to build a huge aluminum smelter at Skagway, Alaska, to be powered by harnessing the waters of the upper Yukon River. The project was to cost $400 million. But there was one hitch. The Canadian government wanted the industry to...