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Lawyers in the Bush. Long before Joe Hirshhorn got interested in the Blind River area, geologists knew that there was radioactivity there. But most thought it came from thorium, because the outcrops yielded little uranium ore. Geologist Franc R. Joubin, who was working as a private consultant in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The New Uranium King | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

This week Louis H. Burgwald of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was touring India with samples of U.S. ghee made from surplus butter. If Indian dairymen like it, William G. Lodwick. an Iowa farmer, now Administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, may have solved the U.S. surplus-butter problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Ex Oriente Lux | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Two years ago Lodwick, on a mission to Pakistan, saw ghee being made, heard that there was a great shortage of it. Since then U.S. dairies have worked on the problem, samples have been sent to Pakistan, endless embassy discussions have been held. Pakistan is willing to pay 42? a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Ex Oriente Lux | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

"Here are a few samples of the verbal bacilli we take into our bloodstreams every day with the morning paper. A blimpwich is a monster Dagwood. Traxcavators are for the farm, exercycles for the form. Mistle toes are slippers. Ranchjamas and perma-sized skijamas are what you wear to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Let's Kick This Around | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Shepherd mixed some coal, a good uranium concentrator, with the sand in one of the oil-well filters. When he sent the filter coal to the Atomic Energy Commission after a few weeks, he got the report that it was several times as rich in uranium as the sand. Shepherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Oklahoma Uranium | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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