Word: vida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra of America, founded two years ago to perform nothing but American music, presented the world premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series...
From a mining syndicate headed by Baltimore's C. E. Tuttle and onetime General Services Administrator Jess Larson, Cord and associates collected $17 million for their uranium claims near Charley Steen's famed Mi Vida mine (TIME, June 27, 1955) in Utah's Big Indian district, the biggest price ever paid in the U.S. for uranium holdings...
...Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord and his friends paid Johnson $80,000 in cash and royalties that would guarantee him up to $500,000 if the mine paid off. It did, after Cord put $1,750,000 into exploration and drilling...
...URANIUM DEAL will give Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. foothold in Millionaire Charles Steen's mining (Mi Vida mine) and milling (Uranium Reduction Co.) empire. After year of maneuvering, Odium bought 30% interest in $8,000,000 uranium mill being built by Steen's Uranium Reduction Co. at Moab, Utah. In return for share in mill, Odium will cancel plans for his own mill near by at La Sal, Utah...
...Awakening. But few marginal operators will share in the business. Of 1,000 uranium mines in the U.S., say Colorado uranium men, only a handful like Charles Steen's rich Mi Vida Mine are making money, have sewed up 90% of all production. Says Millionaire Steen himself: "The public has found out what we've known for a long time-that it's a damn hard job to find a good uranium mine. It isn't the bonanza that a lot of promoters led the public to believe. The crooked promoters and brokers killed their...