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Word: pectore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Borrowing from U.S. financiers, Pros pector La Bine and his prospector-brother Charles built a refinery at Port Hope, Ont., hired scientists to do the technical work, and began producing radium (sale price: $25,000 a gram). It meant little to them that one of the by-products was uranium oxide. Had it not been for World War II, their prosperous Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., Ltd., which netted $280,000 in 1942, might still be producing dividends for shareholders scattered all over the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Radium City | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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