Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncle, the late George Dern, was elected governor of Utah in 1924, later became Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of War. In the gubernatorial campaign, Dern beat his Republican opponent, Governor Charles Mabey, with a well-remembered slogan: "What the State of Utah needs is a Dern good governor, and I don't mean Mabey...
...tour will cover the Southern states, the Southwest, and the West Coast. The return trip will include Utah Colorade, and Missouri...
...program was the first in a series planned by the University of Utah's Medical School for the postgraduate education of doctors already in practice. Closed-circuit TV, which has been used in connection with medical conventions (TIME, June 25, 1951), was impracticable for the mountain states because there is no north-south coaxial cable or microwave to connect the chief cities of the area. Instead, Utah doctors decided to take up KDYL's offer of an early morning hour, when nearly every doctor can watch and the general public is not likely to tune...
...case of lean, black-haired Utah G. Creek, who has lived all of his 38 years near Raymondville, is typical. He sold all 65 of his dairy cattle, got an average of $58 for milk cows that would have brought an average of $250 last year, $37 for heifers that would have sold for $165. He is going to leave his 500-acre farm for a year or so, hopes to get a job in St. Louis to earn money for another try. Said he: "I've got to come back. This is the only life I know...
...closing, which threw some 250 miners out of work, was the latest casualty in the industry. In the lead and zinc areas of Utah, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, mining communities are turning into ghost towns. Such companies as American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co. were laying off refinery employees by the hundreds. Mining employment, which averaged 21,000 in 1947, is down to 14,000 and still dropping; production of lead is off almost 20% from last year, and the output of zinc (usually found with lead) has dropped still further...