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Word: ores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore-one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton, ever discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...radium discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie was laboriously extracted from a radioactive mineral called pitchblende, found in what is now Czechoslovakia. For years those deposits remained the only source of the world supply. Then a radium-bearing ore, carnotite, was discovered in Utah and Colorado. This was a low-grade ore but with the help of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and several corporations, the U. S. became the biggest radium-producing country, at one time turning out 80% of world production. Between 1912 and 1922 the U. S. produced more than 170 grams. In those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Winner of the 1936 title, Oilman Keasey of Corvallis, Ore., was not on the shooting line last week, but a majority of the other ablest U. S. archers had answered the Lancaster Archery Club's blanket invitation which started: "Come bend a bow with us at Lancaster this summer," ended with two lines from Kipling's Philadelphia (Rewards and Fairies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Toxophily in Lancaster | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Died. Julius L. Meier, 62, onetime president of Meier & Frank, famed Portland, Ore., department store, onetime (1931-35) Governor of Oregon; of heart disease; at his estate, "Menucha," east of Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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