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...recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...
...trick is done by a zinc sulphide "phosphor" (a substance that glows when light strikes it) sandwiched between two conducting films, one of them transparent. When an electric voltage is applied across the films, the phosphor takes energy from it and uses it to increase by "electroluminescence" the brightness of the light image...
...operator and state attorney general, defeated Senator Ernest Brown, who was appointed last month to fill the late Pat McCarran's seat. Bible, McCarran's protégé and law partner, has promised to carry on the McCarran tradition by plugging for higher wool, lead and zinc tariffs...
Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
...London, six months after it was seen in Manhattan, Salt of the Earth (TIME, March 29) opened to rave reviews in the anti-U.S. and left-wing press. A militantly proletarian film about striking Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico (sponsored by the Red-run International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Salt even won the measured approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case...