Word: mouat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsomest ghost town of World War II-Mouat, a $15 million investment in chrome-sat on a shelf of Montana's Bear Tooth Mountains last week, all but deserted...
...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
...Mouat, Metals Reserve Co. cleared away the hillside, honeycombed it with six levels of tunnels, perched a mill twelve stories high in the canyon below. Mouat would supply two-thirds of U.S. needs, and never mind the cost...
Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...