Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland, Ore...
...strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...exploratory work will Vanadium Corp. surely know whether the claim is rich enough to mine commercially. And Pratt Segmiller's strike probably is not rich enough to qualify for the $10,000 bonus which the Atomic Energy Commission has offered for the first 20 tons of 20% uranium ore. (Despite thousands of claims, none has yet qualified...
With the steel mill proposal, will come a redoubled effort on the part of New England businessmen to block the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the ore from Labrador could travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...