Atomic ore hunt drives geologists worldwide for uranium
Geologists launch a secret global hunt for uranium and thorium deposits across continents including Canada Europe Asia and Africa using Geiger counters. Major finds spark strategic concern as nations eye ore-rich regions from Great Bear Lake to Cornwall and Bohemia.
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Antarctic
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Canada
North America
Europe
Asia
America
Japan
Nagassaki
India
Australia
M. L. Oliphant
Northwest Territories
Cornwall
Bohemia
British Guiana
Portugal
Las Heras
San Luis
Argentina
Travancore
Sweden
Norway
Germany
France
Belgium
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Russia
Africa
Cape Province
Morogore
Madagascar
Colorado
Mexico
Brazil
Antarctica
Thoroud
New Orleans Uses 16 Pumps to Move Storm Water
New Orleans, in a natural bowl with no gravity outlet to the Mississippi, relies on 16 pumps to remove 60,000 cubic feet of storm water per minute around the clock.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Wiener Roast for Aeroneers Sponsors Tonight
Amarillo Aeroneers Club schedules a 6 30 PM wiener roast at Ellwood Park to honor sponsors of the boys model airplanes. A U control demonstration precedes supper and invites all sponsors from Thirty fourth and Parker to attend.
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Amarillo Aeroneers Club
Ellwood Park
Thirty-fourth
Parker
AAC
Meteor Fragments Shower Temple Area After Night Event
More than 50 metallic fragments from a meteor exploded over Central Texas near Temple. Residents Johnnie F. Sontag and Pat O'Brien found pieces Sunday and delivered them to the Temple Telegram office. Fragments vary from lemon size to small chips, with surfaces like briar pipe bowls and non porous coal cinders. Some pieces are burned cast iron colored, others rock brown, and they feel heavier than rock. A fragment the size of a guinea egg weighed about one quarter pound.
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Temple
Texas
Johnnie F. Sontag
Pat O'Brien
Temple Telegram
Democracy in Marriage Called Hard Sledding
New egalitarian marriages challenge traditional roles says Dr. E. W. Burgess of the University of Chicago. He argues the companionship model, while not to be condemned, is harder to sustain than the old institutional type where men held authority.
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New Orleans
U?p
E. W. Burgess
University of Chicago
Burgess
Fair Parade Committee Plans Amarillo Day Parade
The Tri-State Fair Association parade committee will meet Thursday at 3 PM in the chamber of commerce offices to plan the Amarillo Day parade on opening day of the fair September 22. Delbert Dalby leads the committee.
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Tri-State Fair Association
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Delbert Dalby
US Regions Still Largely Unmapped, CGS Says
Rear Adm. L. O. Colbert testified before a House appropriations subcommittee that less than 45 percent of the United States is adequately mapped. The Coast and Geodetic Survey leads the effort, stressing urgency for uncovering mineral resources and guiding future public works planning.
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Washington
United States
House Appropriations
Adm
L. O. Colbert
Coast and Geodetic Survey
CGS
Colbert
Web as Net Among New Guinea Natives
A description explains a spider web used as a fishing net by New Guinea natives. They shape a bamboo loop and place it in the forest to be enveloped by the spider silk, forming a trap for catching fish.
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New Guinea
East St. Louis Tops Illinois for Murders in Year
East St. Louis ranked highest for violent crime in Illinois with 13 murders last year as Chicago recorded 231. The city also faced 93 robberies 116 aggravated assaults 182 burglaries 156 major thefts and 242 auto thefts while Cicero reported no homicides.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Illinois
Chicago
Cicero
Federal Bureau of Investigation
al Capone
Noisy Protest Over Shaving Equipment In Fort Worth Jail
Ten county jail inmates protested losing shaving gear by pounding cell bars with shoes. Sheriff Sally Montgomery said the disturbance could be heard over a block away and returned the personal items.
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Fort Worth
Sally Montgomery
Salvaged fat haul tops 17000 pounds for Seattle port
Port officials say more than 17000 pounds of salvaged fat have been collected from US Army transports arriving in Seattle since last January. The largest single vessel haul was 1600 pounds from the General Lettice Eltinge sailing from Yokohama.
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Seattle
Leroy Eltinge
Yokohama
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