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Box 5

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Special Articles on Specific Locations, 1951-1955

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents Articles about Arco, Idaho's involvement with atomic development, 1951; Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Park, 1955; Las Vegas, Nevada's development in tourism, 1951; and Phoenix, Arizona's rapid growth as a retirement mecca, 1951.
Dates: 1951-1955

Trains

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents One article muses over the favorite pastime of "watching" trains, and the other articles concern a major rail-freight battle initiated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad against the Union Pacific Railroad.
Dates: 1945-1996

Music and Art, 1950-1951

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents This folder contains several articles written for the "Musical Chatter and Data" column of the Utah Symphony's Programs.
Dates: 1950-1951

Personality Sketches

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Short essays on Judge Samuel Bent, an elderly former roommate of Goodman's; Walter V. Pace, a wholesale meat dealer involved in a possible scam; Dr. Frank V. Colombo, a former medical doctor with the United Mine Workers and the topic of the union strike against U.S. Steel; Hamilton Grey Park, a state senator from Sanpete, Utah; Cornelia Otis Skinner, a touring performer seen at the Capitol Theater; Daniel C. Jackling, the developer of the Bingham copper mine; Josie Barnes, a female TV...
Dates: 1945-1996

Businesses in Utah

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 7-8
Scope and Contents Some of the articles include Pratt Seegmiller's uranium find, "Big Rock Candy Mountain"; Downtown Salt Lake merchants agreeing to stay open one night a week; the 1957 financial slump for retailers in downtown Salt Lake City; the dedication of Thiokol Chemical Corporation's new plant; a history of the Deseret Newspaper; and "Tip Top Tower," an article about the highest television relay tower in the nation.
Dates: 1945-1996

Agriculture in Utah

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 9-10
Scope and Contents Includes such topics as raising turkeys; fluorine and its effect in raising cattle; the killer weed, halogeton, and its effect on Utah sheep; and, smoke pollution and its effect on crop production.
Dates: 1945-1996

Uranium Boom in Utah

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents This folder contains articles pertaining to mining uranium in southeastern Utah; uranium as a health hazard to uranium miners; and the building of roads to reach uranium mines.
Dates: 1945-1996

Environmental Development in the West

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents This folder includes the Department of the Interior's Colorado River-Great Basin Field Committee's meeting in Salt Lake City; the effect of proposed dams and irrigation on national parks particularly in Vernal, Utah; supersonic research near Zion National Park; and the new bridge over Glen Canyon Dam.
Dates: 1945-1996

Goodman's Memories of Brooklyn, New York

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents This folder contains five short papers on Goodman's memories of growing up in Brooklyn, New York. The titles of the stories are "Parkie," "New York Hay," Dear Mr. Niles," "One Hundred Percent Union," and "The Disembodied Head at Coney Island."
Dates: 1945-1996

Weekly Columns, 1953

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 14-15
Scope and Contents This folder contains "Meet Your Legislators," 1953; "Up and Down the Street," 1953; and "Nothing Serious," year not recorded.
Dates: 1953