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MILLIONAIRE Charles Steen, whose Mi Vida mine was southeast Utah's first big uranium strike, is joining with Salt Lake City's Combined Metals Reduction Co. to build what is called the world's biggest uranium processing mill at Moab, Utah. Uranium Reduction Co., the new company, will start work on a $4,000,000 plant within the next four months, hopes to start processing ore from Steen's mines by early...
...Hastings of Austin, Minn.; Philip C. Haughey of Framingham, Mass.; Richard K. Hurley of Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman of Concord, N. H.; John P. Scott of Dallas, Texas...
...built a prototype. Frank took it to Chicago and showed it to Montgomery Ward officials, who astonished the three partners by ordering 250 for the 1947 Christmas season. Ward soon upped the order to 1,000, then 2,000. The partners incorporated as Magna Engineering Corp. (after Magna, Utah, home town of the brothers' parents). In 1948, its first full year, Magna sold $3,000,000 worth of Shopsmiths. Last year it grossed nearly...
Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") MacFadden, steadily ripening with age, asked Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee if he might celebrate his 86th birthday next August by parachuting into Great Salt Lake. The Utah Aeronautics Commission, to which Lee referred the request, turned thumbs down on MacFadden because he might splash too hard on the "heavy" salt water and thus harm the commission's policy of "aerial safety." Taking the news standing up, MacFadden rumbled: "If I really want to make the jump, I'll go out and make it. How can they stop...
SHELL OIL, which struck the first oil in Nevada a fortnight ago, may also become the first producer in Arizona. So far, the company has gone down 5,960 ft. in the northeast corner of the state near the Utah-New Mexico border, found traces of oil and a pocket of natural...