Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constitutional. In Lewisburg, Ohio, John F. Lock won a 52-year battle to get his rural mailbox moved 1,056 ft. nearer his home after he proved that he had already walked 6,250 miles to pick up his mail...
...Pick bought some camping equipment, a rock pick and a Scintillometer ("sort of a fancy Geiger counter"), spent the next few months trudging around the Colorado and Utah countryside picking up tips from old hands at the game. Finally, with his funds running low, he set off for the remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles...
Poison in the Water. After a four-day march. Pick was sitting on a rock one day near a crumbling ridge when he noticed that his Scintillometer was not registering properly. He thought it was out of order. But when he walked away from the rock the needle moved again. Then the light dawned. Says he: "I was sitting on a solid chunk of uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked...
Payoff in Manhattan. Last week Prospector Pick went to Manhattan to see about selling his mine. There he sat down with Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., who has been busily scouting the Colorado plateau, picking up uranium claims in hopes of putting together a major new combine of uranium companies. After several days of dickering, Pick sold his mine to Odium's Atlas Corp. for a whopping...
...Pick will stay on as chief executive officer of the mine, while Atlas will set up a subsidiary to get the property into big-scale production. At present Pick is digging out 1,500 tons of ore a month and selling it to the AEC at a clear profit of $32 a ton. Odium soon hopes to step that up to 10,000 tons a month. Said he: "Uranium is the oil of tomorrow, and tomorrow isn't very far away...