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Word: mininger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Restrain. In the hope of striking such a bargain, President Paz Estenssoro has offered engineers and other foreign employees of the three companies security of tenure, salary and other contract benefits if they will keep on working for the government's newly constituted Bolivian Mining Corp. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Nationalization Day | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

All Crown's interests-plus the job of looking for new ones-keep him busy, but because of a heart ailment many years ago, he usually gets to bed by 10. To keep in trim, he swims twice a day in the basement pool in his is-room house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Midwest Midas | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

In the Tennessee hills 45 miles northwest of Knoxville lies Royal Blue, a model coal-mining town. Its 300 miners' cottages, owned by the Blue Diamond Coal Co., are neat and attractive, and set in their own plots. Royal Blue has one of the county's biggest schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Union Blues | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Waiting Game. But such towns as Grand Junction show few signs of booming like the West's gold-mining towns of yore. Since most of the prospecting area is in the public domain, few have cashed in on leases or land sales. On top of that, uranium mining and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: The Uranium Boom | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

One of the few men who have struck it rich in the uranium boom is Blair Burwell, a trained mining engineer. He set up a company in Grand Junction four years ago to provide drilling, exploration and consulting services, has since split his stock 100 for one and paid 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: The Uranium Boom | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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