Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other step was taken by the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. It made a deal with the giant Anaconda Copper Co. to boost its output more than 30,000 tons a year by putting Nevada's Yerington mine into production. Chairman Cornelius Kelley will spend $33 million of Anaconda's money developing the property; for its part, DMPA agreed to buy any copper from the mine that Kelley cannot sell in the first six producing years, for 25½? a Ib. (v. the present ceiling price of 24½?), the first premium price deal for metals to be made...
Extracting copper from such low-grade ore is enormously expensive. To open his Nevada mine, "Con" Kelley had to buy a sulphur mine 60 miles away, to get sulphuric acid needed for the concentrating process. Because exploration is even more expensive, Kelley and others are now going through old diggings to get out the high-cost ore that had been bypassed. Anaconda alone is spending $27 million to tap 130 million tons of such ore in its famed Butte, Mont, properties and another $100 million to process low-grade ore in Chile...
...Mexico (TIME, Nov. 12), a fall of nine bright meteorites in a year over a comparable area would be considered exceptional. "I just don't know what to make of it," said Dr. LaPaz. "I am almost inclined to ask those [atom bomb] fellows out in Nevada what they are doing...
...Southwest was already abuzz with rumors. The fireballs were being pinned on White Sands (rocket) Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, as well as on the Nevada bomb testers. So far, no one had yet suggested another invasion of the famous flying saucers with their bright little crewmen from Venus or Mars. But people were beginning to report "things in the sky" as far away as New Jersey and New York...
...employed." The New York Evening Post complained (in 1828) about the new fad of men playing ball in the city: "The annoyance has become absolutely intolerable . . . and ought to be put an end to without delay." A generation later, a teamster who had struck it rich in Nevada passed a verdict on U.S. culture: "Ther arn't no chance for a gentleman to spend his coin in this country, an' so me an' Mrs. Bowers is goin' ter Yoorup...