Word: vitro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huge heaps of ore have arisen around western mines; in Wyoming's rich Gas Hills area. Vitro Uranium Co. now has 40,000 tons on hand. Vitro shut down its drilling rigs, laid off half its mining force, planned to discharge the other half this month-unless something happened. Throughout New Mexico's Grants-Ambrosia Lake region, only twelve rigs were drilling last week v. more than 40 before AEC's freeze. The New Mexico State Land Office last month could lease only six of the 30 tracts it auctioned, and high bids reached the princely...
...field of commercial atomic power. Others on this panel will be: former AECommissioner Eugene Zuckert (who will talk on atomic energy as a new potential for investment); William P. Gage, president of Grace Chemical Co. (who will speak on atomic energy and agriculture); J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Vitro Corp. of America, and A. C. Monteith, a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp. (who will go into the subject of industrial applications of atomic energy). Professor Joaqqim Costa Ribeiro, scientific director of Brazil's National Research Council, will discuss the opportunities for commercial development of atomic energy...
...John) Carlton Ward Jr., 60, who piloted Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. for ten years until he was ousted by Founder Sherman M. Fairchild in 1949, was elected president of New York's Vitro Manufacturing Co. (chemicals, uranium processing). Since 1949, Ward has bossed Boston's Thompson Industries...
Died. Albert Lundy Baker, 55, chairman of the board of Pittsburgh's Vitro Manufacturing Co. and a wartime leader in the Manhattan Project; of a heart attack; in Summit, N.J. In 1943-45, heading a group of 2,000 top U.S. scientists and engineers, he directed the secret planning and construction of Oak Ridge's $500,000,000 Uranium 235 separating plant, completed it five precious weeks ahead of schedule...