Word: riverton
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TRANSAMERICA CORP., the giant California holding company which recently spent $20 million for five banks in Utah, Idaho and Montana (TIME, April 19), is invading Wyoming. It is acquiring the Casper National Bank and the Riverton First National Bank (resources: $38 million), thus bringing its total holdings to 14 banks with deposits of $2.5 billion in ten Western states...
URANIUM ORE is pouring out of the West at such a clip that AEC buying cannot keep up. No sooner had AEC begun operation of a new ore-buying station at Riverton, Wyo. last week than it had to announce plans for two more new stations, one at Greenriver, Utah and the other at Cutter, Ariz...
...Around Riverton, Wyo., where Neil McNeice recently struck a rich lode in the Gas Hills area (TIME, Oct. 25), claims were filed at the rate of 500 a week as prospectors dreamed of another "Lucky" mine...
URANIUM STRIKE in Wyoming may turn into one of the biggest yet. Part-time prospector and Machine-shop Operator Neil McNeice hit a rich ore deposit 45 miles east of Riverton. American Smelting & Refining considers the area so promising that it will operate with the AEC a uranium-buying station at Riverton...
...Veto for Canned Scripts. I heard the same sort of determined support for public power voiced by G.O.P. voters in Nebraska (a public-power state) and by people throughout the Northwest (where it has become an issue of enormous magnitude); for federal-irrigation projects by G.O.P.-voting farmers in Riverton, Shoshoni and Douglas, Wyo., and for the strictest maintenance of present Government rules regulating the use of national parks and U.S. forests by chambers of commerce in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana...