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Ryan called Mather a "pedant" whom the priest believed was "unqualified to be presented at the banquet." "However competent this man may be as a geologist," he continued, "he lacks any concept whatsoever of the evil forces that are engulfing the world and bringing suffering and death to tens and thousands of American kids in Korea...
Problems arose because each department was limited to certain number of permanent appointments. A geologist would not want to see his side of the department lose a place to a man, mostly concerned with economics besides his own field...
...prospect of a domestic supply of uranium, now mostly imported from Canada and the Belgian Congo, was looking up. This week Geologist Robert J. Wright of the Atomic Energy Commission told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers that several kinds of uranium ore are being mined in the U.S. on a large scale. More important for the nation's future, said Dr. Wright, are the traces of pitchblende, the richest uranium ore, that have been found. There is an excellent chance, he believes, that deeper drilling will uncover more...
Week after week, month after month, three young Italian prospectors methodically paddled up & down the swift tributaries of the Caroní River. Their leader, a geologist, was convinced that diamonds were to be found where the streams cut through the jungle-swathed sandstone edges of the Gran Sabana plateaus along Venezuela's remote Brazilian frontier...
...supporting a revolution in the province of Azerbaijan. His objectives: to safeguard British oil in Iran, check Russian expansion, keep a friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues and defeats him. Mac not only sympathizes with the revolution and gives the Russians a bill of health; he also cops sophisticated Kathy Clive from under the very nose of Essex...