Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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URANIUM STRIKE in Wyoming may turn into one of the biggest yet. Part-time prospector and Machine-shop Operator Neil McNeice hit a rich ore deposit 45 miles east of Riverton. American Smelting & Refining considers the area so promising that it will operate with the AEC a uranium-buying station at Riverton...
...directors of the broadcasting station are John M. Norton '56 of Rock Falls, Ill and Lowell House, and Marshall R. Childs '53 of Corvallis, Ore and Kirkland House...
Second row: Egon R. Bodtker of Portland, Ore, and Weld North; E. F. Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...
...Bakersfield. One day last December, as they drove along the Walker Pass road through the southern Sierra Mountains, the needle of the scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday prospectors found enough ore to give California its first solid uranium strike-and its first uranium rush...
...Bakersfield Sears, Roebuck & Co. was hard put to keep Geiger counters and the more sensitive scintillators in stock, had already sold "hundreds" of them. Complained a professional ore analyzer: "My phone rings all night long. They call from all over the U.S., and they want to know if they should come out here and look for uranium...