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Garrels, who has been a member of the University faculty since 1955, previously headed the Solid State Group of the U.S. Geological Survey. He recently analyzed the movement of uranium deposits in the earth, and he is currently studying thermodynamic relations in geology...
...buffs. In the great Depression, Automan Cord's empire dissolved. Since then, he has been living quietly in Nevada, making money in real estate and serving as a state senator. Last week Automan Cord was back making the kind of glamorous news he loves, this time in uranium...
From a mining syndicate headed by Baltimore's C. E. Tuttle and onetime General Services Administrator Jess Larson, Cord and associates collected $17 million for their uranium claims near Charley Steen's famed Mi Vida mine (TIME, June 27, 1955) in Utah's Big Indian district, the biggest price ever paid in the U.S. for uranium holdings...
Abiding Passion. Piloting Continental is President Robert Six, 49, a burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts elk in Colorado, backs shows on Broadway (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...Canada expects to be producing uranium at an annual rate of $300 million, the bulk of it in the Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising...