Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drainage District. In Monroe, Ore. residents left their faucets running to keep the pipes from freezing, completely drained the reservoir...
...according to Shimkin, the Russians began looking for radioactive minerals. The best find was at Tyuya Muyun in the Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive waters near Ukhta) yielded...
...ore in the Fergana Valley is rather like the carnotite of Colorado, a complex uranium-vanadium mineral. It is found in veins, some of them almost five feet thick. By 1933, the uranium content in the run-of-the-mine ore had risen...
Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...
Born. To Gretchen Eraser, 29, pert, brown-haired 1948 Olympic ski champion (first American to win an Olympic ski race, the women's special slalom), and Donald W. Fraser, 35, Vancouver, Wash. oil distributor: their first child, a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Donald Jr. Weight...