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Chemical and Engineering News tells about a prospecting system that seems to point to the oil itself. Prospector Hans Lundberg of Toronto surveys an oil-promising territory by flying back & forth across it in an airplane equipped with a scintillometer* to count the low-energy gamma rays coming up from the earth...
...decided to get off the board." Frazer will hold his job as chairman of Graham-Paige Corp., an investment company, and will be president and chairman of Standard Uranium Corp., a new company in which he will be in business with Charles Steen. the strike-it-lucky uranium prospector (TIME...
Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets...
Latest in the How To series (How To Win Friends, How To Be Happy Though Drafted, etc.) the film is singularly uninstructive. Leggy Lauren Bacall is the only prospector of a mercenary trio to strike matrimonial pay-dirt. Less fortunate, Misses Monroe and Betty Grable trade loot for love and their gold rush fails...
...down, is angling for a deal for $10 million with another group. Says Charlie Steen: "I don't want to build a financial empire, or become any kind of a big entrepreneur -I'm not cut out for it. I'm just a geologist and prospector, and that's what I want to be-although now I can do my prospecting in a limousine...