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"Lead mining fever in the Ozarks"
Environmentalists reveled early this fall when public pressure forced the MIssouri Conservation Commission to rescind its approval for lead prospecting on public lands within the Ozarks watersheds of southern Missouri. The celbration was short lived, however, as activists now struggle to block efforts, again by Doe Run Mining Co., to do exploratory drilling on 7,970 acres of U.S. Forest Service land north of the pristine Eleven Point River. Missourians have already borne considerable risk as the supplier of approximately 80 percent of the nation's mined lead each year. A state Department of Health study, in results reported in August, found elevated lead blood levels in 17 percent of randomly selected children, ages six months to six years, living in an area knowns as the Old Lead Belt in St. Francois County, about 80 miles south of St. Louis.
Tags: lead mining; lead poisoning; pollutants; Doe Run Company
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The Price of Lead
Audobon magazine reports that "Deep in the Ozarks, lead mining threatens a national wild and scenic river."
Tags: mining; Doe Run Company; Mark Twain National Forest; Viburnum; Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Forest Service; Eleven Point River
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Future Trading: Does Chicago Run Wall Street?
New York Times Magazine asks "Does Chicago Run Wall Street?" in this look at the interaction between the futures market and the stock exchange, April 22, 1990.
Tags: gambling Mercantile Exchange Shearson Lehman Hutton investments Uchitelle
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Rocky Flats fraud: 17-year secret
Daily Camera investigates the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, finding Department of Energy officials and top scientists involved in elaborate gifts-and goods-making operation. The investigation also disclosed gifts that went to DOE officials, plant employees and officials of Rockwell International, which runs the plant. The department's scheme cost taxpayers millions of dollars over 17 years.
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Bradenton Herald runs series about Seimens-Allis, a Milwaukee manufacturing company that moved its operations to Manatee County, Fla.; reporter looks at what the company does, its reputation in Milwaukee and what the new plant will mean economically and environmentally to the Florida community, Dec. 16 - 23, 1984.
Tags: FL Mason Seimens-Allis
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No title (id: 320)
Hartford Courant does article on Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder's gambling with bookmakers associated with some of the nation's leading mobsters; one sophisticated bookmaking operation works out of a Florida racetrack run by former FBI agents, April 1979.
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