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...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. Says...
...foundation stone of his empire. Started as a gas producer and distributor, Southern Union's earnings were strictly limited by state utility commissions. Murchison "spun off" its gas-and-oil holdings into separate corporations, including Delhi Oil, Barker Dome, Aztec Oil & Gas, Arkansas Western Gas and Texas Southeastern Gas, whose earnings as producers were not regulated. Delhi Oil, the biggest of the children, has since wildcatted its way into 215 producing oil and gas wells in six states and oil reserves of more than 11 million bbls. It started hunting oil and gas in Canada through a subsidiary...
...north, in the state's financial center of Jacksonville, the red skeletons of two skyscrapers sprouted to provide office space for the Prudential and Independent life-insurance companies. Other cities had wooed them, but the companies chose Jacksonville for their southeastern headquarters because the state gives insurance companies tax advantages for locating regional offices in Florida. In turn, this law is making the city one of the nation's most important insurance centers. St. Regis Paper had opened a giant new $18 million plant; General Motors' Electro-Motive Division has nearly completed a $2,500,000 expansion...
...deep southeastern triangle of Texas is a land of aching distances and blazing sun, of endless, string-straight roads and dusty little towns. Oil derricks stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...
...Vietnamese forces had the military power to protect them. After seven years of weary jungle war, France is discouraged by these desertions, as is our State Department which has used pressure to keep the French fighting. The picture of Indo-China as the block to Red control of Southeastern Asia is fading with the continued inability to rally support of the native population behind French defenses...