Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The New Prospector. After war's end, the Atomic Energy Commission gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys...
The reason was that it was a new kind of mining, requiring a new kind of prospector. Trained geologists, equipped with gamma-ray logging units and other instruments, prospected the area by helicopter, horse and jeep. The number of uranium mines jumped from 15 to more than 200, their employment...
The story "Mysterious Trail" in TIME, July 28 of Professor Ernest Rudge and the pudding stones was of more than ordinary interest to me. Two years ago, my wife and I visited Grime's Graves at Weeting in Norfolk and were taken by the British Ministry of Works'...
Incidentally, Brandon, the next village, is the home of the world's last flint knapper and used to be famous for its flints which were exported to all parts of the world. Flints are still exported from Brandon to the U.S. for flintlock guns (some years ago a request...
Lewis was not saying publicly just what he wanted. Best guess: 1) a small wage increase for his 475,000 miners; 2) a boost in producers' royalty payments (now 30? a ton) to the union's welfare treasury; 3) a spread-the-work arrangement that would divide mining...