Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the quietest hours one night at Salt Lake County General Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...
...newest additions to the tour list is Rangely (pop. 800), which lies in such an inaccessible corner of Colorado that artists must drive in from Utah. Rangely music lovers wired Community Concerts Association last spring that they had collected $2,000 and wanted a concert series. When Community turned them down on the ground that it was essential to have a piano in town, the citizens of Rangely took up another collection, bought a new Baldwin grand, and got their series, including a male quartet and a two-piano team (which trucked in the second piano...
COPPER CUTBACKS are planned by Kennecott Copper Corp., No. 1 U.S. producer, to boost prices that have slumped to 27?Ib. from 54¼ last year. Kennecott will trim domestic output 12%, or 3,800 tons a month, by slowing operations in Utah, New Mexico, Nevada. Move follows 3,500 tons a month cutback by Phelps Dodge Corp., 3,000 tons a month by Anaconda...
HUGE GAS POOL will be tapped in Utah and Arizona and piped to West Coast, where natural gas demand is racing ahead of supply. If FPC approves as expected, El Paso Natural Gas Co. will sink 1,000 wells in rich twelve-mile-square area of Utah...
During World War II, U.S. mines in such big lead and zinc states as Idaho and Utah operated at top capacity, and the U.S. encouraged foreign producers by buying every ton they could deliver. Prices and production fluttered after the war. In 1953 the market sagged, but was quickly buoyed up by a U.S. grain-for-metals barter program and stockpiling. But this year, with enough lead and zinc stored up to last an estimated three years, the U.S. eased off on stockpiling. Prices tumbled from 16? to 13½? a Ib. for lead, from 13½? t010...