Word: utah
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URANIUM FEVER has hit the huge Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., soon to build a $168 million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
...reproductive every year. The men of '45 now average 1.73 children, which is a 70% jump over the men of '36 when they were ten years out. The women have 1.43 children, a gain of 51% over their counterparts of '36. Most prolific campus, as usual: Utah's Brigham Young University...
...testing process in the manufacture of the Cutter product. Last week, for the first time, a virologist flatly asserted that he had found live virus in Cutter specimens. He was Dr. Louis P. Gebhardt, professor of bacteriology and director of the polio research laboratory at the University of Utah. The chilling thought, of course, was that what happened to Cutter might have happened to other manufacturers. Said a spokesman for California's Cutter Laboratories: "If Dr. Gebhardt's finding is confirmed by the U.S. Public Health Service, it will be evidence for the need for the new, more...
...felt even stronger about this point was Indiana's Senator Capehart, who fought bitterly with Fulbright during the hearings. Filing a minority report along with three other Republican Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
...name was no capricious pun; he was named for C. C. Goodwin, a famed editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck gold, silver and lead, made $30 million, then gave most of it away...