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From the Mayo Clinic came a breathless story of a hunt for three lost tubes of almost priceless radium...
...worth much in the back pack, dog-team and canoe economy of the north country. Soon Imperial capped its wells, laid low until 1932 when the radium and the later gold-mining push at Great Bear Lake and Yellowknife, and the advent of air communication, made a teakettle refinery at Norman Wells worth while. For ten years the half-pint plant was operated in the open-water season, closed down for the winter...
...public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals-one way of studying what they...
Fourth largest user of radium is the research physicist, and most of the world's radium outside hospitals is to be found in university and other research laboratories. Radium lasts a long time: one gram will be half a gram in 1,580 years...
There are possibly three pounds of radium in the world, but accurate figures on anything to do with radium are hard to extract from the few men who control its production and sale. The price of radium has fallen from $125,000 a gram to $25,000-in terms of an ounce, a decline from $3,500,000 to $708,750. The price fell first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery...