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Last July, as he walked into a trader's store at Rattlesnake, N.Mex. to buy cigarettes, he saw two men examining a fist-sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a $10,000 prize to prospectors who made a big strike. Paddy decided to try finding some and that same day, as he rode his horse homeward, he spotted an outcropping of the odd-looking rock. He broke off some. Next day he took it to Grants, gave...
...clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized by the British, who pack him off to a pukka school, Kim plays hooky, picks up some tutoring in espionage and pits his wits against the Russians who are stirring up trouble on the other side of the Khyber Pass...
...heads of the two Hopi Indian clans from Old Oraibi Indian village asked release of all Hopis in uniform, on grounds that the Hopis wanted only to live a peaceful life their own way and had never made any treaty of alliance with the U.S. anyway. Roman Hubbell, Indian trader and expert on Hopi habits, sensed a Union Square tone to the letter, and thought that a Communist might have put them...
...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
...West Coast of the U.S. flew the Singapore Trader, stopping briefly at Anchorage, Alaska, and at the Shemya airport in the Aleutians. Shemya was fogbound, but a MATS ground crew talked the ship down with GCA equipment, guided it to a perfect landing between the double white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private...