Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chase N. Peterson of Logan, Utah, and Bruce R. Recker of Englewood, New Jersey, received the awards for their "contributions to undergraduate life in Winhrop House and Harvard College...
...greatest treasure hunt in U.S. history is in full cry. Above the green of North Dakota wheatfields rise the spidery towers of oil-drilling rigs. On the plains of Utah, shirt-sleeved crews set off dynamite blasts and, from the vibrations, map the subterranean oil-bearing strata. Over Alabama cottonfields fly planes with strange; antenna-like tails, which pick up magnetic waves and thus record geological formations below. In West Texas, wildcatters, trucks loaded with tools, inch across the prairies like gypsy caravans...
...years, Texaco, Ohio Oil and Bay Petroleum have all put up new office buildings in Denver. Big new reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak...
...process, developed by its Chemical Construction Corp. subsidiary, will enable the U.S. to utilize its own low-grade ores more cheaply, and produce pure cobalt from them at a much faster rate. For example, Howe Sound Co., for which "Chemico" is building a new $2,500,000 Utah plant to utilize the process, will be able to turn out 4,000,000 Ibs. a year of pure cobalt, or about 50% of U.S. consumption...
...Utah Democrats named an uninstructed slate of 20 delegates (with twelve convention votes), none of whom would commit himself...