Word: utah
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Some big problems must still be licked. One is the lack of water needed for refining. All big U.S. shale deposits lie in the most arid sections of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Another problem is the question of ash disposal: more than a ton of ash is piled up for every barrel of oil produced...
...almost as bad on Utah's famed Bear River marshes, where "bluebird weather" was keeping the ducks deep in the marshes...
When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...Mormon Brigham Young lay crated in Washington awaiting a decision on just where it would be set up in the Capitol's "Hall of Fame." Sculptor Mahonri M. Young, a grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...
When the new $44.4 million credit is drawn on, Henry Kaiser's various enterprises, according to his books, will owe the Government $186.6 million. He still owes $88.2 million on his Fontana, Calif, steel plant and $54 million on Permanente Metals, Willow Run and the Ironton (Utah) blast furnace. To date, Kaiser has paid off a total of $70.1 million on Government loans and credits, and he has paid another $41 million to the U.S. in rents and interest. Kaiser said he has also poured $108 million in earnings and private loans into improving and expanding his plants...