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...West of the jungle rise the high Andes -"God Almighty with His back up." On this vast plateau the ancient Incas, seeming to thrive on the cold, thin air, built the roads and stone cities for a creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...
...biting as its rain. Bessie was born 55 years ago in its working-class district, where one cold-water tap in the courtyard often served a whole block of houses. Her mother was a Labor Party worker and a social worker, ladling out soup from "St. George's Plateau (atop the steps of a Liverpool concert hall), and one of Bessie's earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went to her first job at 15, she remembers her mother calling after her: ". . . And don't come home until...
...National Industrial Conference Board backed up this view: by midyear, "sales and production of 1955 models in the eight months since November 1954 will have come close to exhausting the 1955 model market." Furthermore, said N.I.C.B., it looks as if home building has reached "at least a temporary plateau" at 1,400,000 starts, meaning that the boom may get no additional lift from construction this year. And March steel production was so high that, for the first time since 1953, N.I.C.B. thought "a substantial degree of inventory rebuilding was occurring," thereby reducing one of the sources of demand that...
...confirmed last week. Its name: Blue Rock Mine, in Arizona's Rincon Mountains, some 40 miles east of Tucson. The finders: Dentist Garth Thornburg, 35, and his brother Vance, 33, onetime farmer. Pioneers of the Grand Junction uranium rush, the Thornburg brothers collected promising claims on the Colorado plateau in 1950, built them into their Uranium Enterprises. Inc. On their 116 claims in the Blue Rock area, they believe they have at least 25,000 tons of commercial ore, hope to prove out 150,000 tons...
...there was as much uranium in the meat as in the claims on which many of the uranium stocks had been floated. Many of the penny uranium stocks went into a slump. But few speculators were discouraged. Everyone still hoped to make a killing on the uranium-rich Colorado Plateau, where 650 new mines were opened during the year...