Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery was good news to the 800 uranium prospectors now wandering over the vast Colorado Plateau. Some are gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time...
...appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at every stop. For the opening of Colorado Territory in Denver, she had to ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave the comfort of her compartment to act as "guest...
Spender was here in 1949 to give a Morris Gray Poetry Reading. Last summer he spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial at Aspen, Colorado...
...going to New York," explained Molony, with a grin, "and I'll see the Colorado Fuel & Iron people. I'll say to them, 'We want the Bethlehem formula.' They'll say to me, 'What is the Bethlehem formula?' "Then I'll pound the table and I'll say, 'What the hell you trying to do-break the union...
Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...