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...biggest uranium miners, is growing still bigger. For $7,250,000 Atlas bought more than 50% of the Almar uranium mine through purchase of Almar Minerals Inc., which owns about 15,000 acres with at least 600,000 tons of ore in the Big Indian area of Utah. Total Atlas uranium investment: $37 million...
...William C. Whitehead, 61, moved up from executive vice president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John...
Back in 1946, young Joe Cooper and his" father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine...
...York, Denver and California interests, including Lewis Douglas, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and New York's Foley Bros., one of the world's biggest metallurgical plant builders, now putting up an $8,000,000 uranium reduction mill at Moab, Utah for Charles Steen, uranium millionaire (TIME, June 27). Foley will operate the Happy Jack for Barlu, and build a big mill where, under present plans, uranium processing will be carried two steps farther than private industry has ever gone before: from uranium oxide concentrate to uranium salts, and then to metal. Says...
Papa was no king of the wild frontier, but for Utah Territory of the 1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa...