Word: ore
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last July, as he walked into a trader's store at Rattlesnake, N.Mex. to buy cigarettes, he saw two men examining a fist-sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a $10,000 prize to prospectors who made a big strike. Paddy decided to try finding some and that same day, as he rode his horse homeward, he spotted an outcropping of the odd-looking rock. He broke off some. Next day he took it to Grants, gave...
...Sure enough, the rocks contained streaks of a low-grade uranium ore called carnotite. Paddy staked a 160-acre claim for himself, a few more for his sons, and waited for the Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants...
...town discovered that the grey limestone rock in which Paddy had found the yellow streaks runs for 50 miles in a ten-mile swatch. Most of it is on land owned by the Santa Fe Railroad. Enthusiasts guessed that there might be as much as ten million tons of ore, worth from $5 to $15 a ton. Last week Grants's two long-distance lines buzzed with calls from all over the U.S. Most of its 17 bars all proudly displayed ore samples. Advertisements for mining machinery and Geiger counters poured in on Clyne A. Bailey, editor...
...Keeping up with the year's changes in the nuclear laboratories, the new Atomic Energy Labs, selling at $49.50, are now equipped with deionizers, Dri-electric power packs, and Geiger Counters. Thousands of smiling pink-checked celebrants on the 25th are being exhorted to test the radioactivity of ore samples, measure half-lives, view the alpha particle effect on fluorescent screens, and prospect for radio-active deposits on the way to school. Parents are assured that success in this venture may lead to a $10,000 reward, that very similar Geiger Counters cost many hundreds of dollars, and that...
...went ahead last week issuing another batch of selective controls: ¶ Steelmen were ordered to deliver 30,000 tons of steel to shipbuilders for construction of Great Lakes ore carriers in the first quarter of 1951. Next on the list: allocations for oil refineries and power plants...