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...river basin, an area larger than all of New England, will enrich our whole country. New irrigation and power dams will increase the productivity of some 360,000 acres of land, but even more important it will open up the basin's wealth of lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil and uranium...
...first things the America undertaker changed was the old "wooden overcoat." In an age when the grave robber and the medical student were supposedly working hand in glove, "safe" coffins, made at first of iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease...
URANIUM HUNT will be started by Texas Co., 14th biggest U.S. industrial company. The oil company will form a new $6,000,000 firm with two other smaller companies (New Jersey Zinc Co., Shattuck Denn Mining Corp.) to lease several hundred square miles of potential uranium lands in Arizona, New Mexico and southern Utah...
...strain now used in the Salk vaccine, reported Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele in the A.M A Jour-ml. Researchers at Philadelphia Children's Hospital meanwhile disclosed first details of their method for making a preparation that is virtually pure polio virus (TIME June 20). They use a zinc salt to precipitate the virus, then a centrifuge to separate it from unwanted kidney tissue and chemicals. They concentrate 15 gallons to a teaspoonful, 99% pure. Among many advantages claimed for the method: ease of manufacture, far greater uniformity and safety, much improved accuracy in testing...
...creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...