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Word: mininger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garden on the Moon. The greater part of Nevada (sixth largest state in the Union) is as bleak and uninhabited as the craters of the moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: Mr. Big | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Classmate of F.D.R. No man is better equipped by experience than Thayer Lindsley to launch the Yukon project. The publicity-shy Ventures president has been one of the most successful operators in Canadian mining ever since he went to Canada from the U.S. in the early '20s with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Metal Empire | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

The Mine-Mill invasion of the uranium fields was carried off by typical Communist methods. Last February one of Murphy's organizers, posing first as a mining official and later as a newspaper reporter, arrived in Uranium City. Living in a shack tent, he worked among the miners in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Red Invasion | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Mining Cerro Bolívar will be no easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Iron Mountain | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Iron mining will yield Venezuela no such fabulous income as she gets from oil ($525 million last year). U.S. Steel thinks that the country will benefit mainly from 1) employment, a steady 3,000 after mining starts, 2) opening of the Orinoco to deep-sea ships, and 3) an investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Iron Mountain | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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