Original sentence: In 1971 it was acquired by a Boston dealer Sidney de Young and sold for $150,000 to an anonymous private collector.It was characterized as M on the diamond color scale; this nominally corresponds to faint yellow color, but the visual impression from Uncle Sam has been variably described as white or slight pink.It was facetted twice by Schenck & Van Haelen of New York, a company which specilized on Arkansas diamonds and had handled over 14,000 of them.Judging from the color, the diamond is most likely of pure IIa diamond type meaning the amount of impurities is below few parts per million.Not that the value of the diamond was sufficient to cover the debts, but the discovery has lifted the spirits enough to keep the surface operations.The company described those diamonds as being so hard that they could only be cut using powder of other Arkansas diamond.The discovery of Uncle Sam has arguably resqued the Arkansas Diamond Corporation, which had a debt over US$276,470 by that time and was going to be shut down in the winter of 1924.The originally discovered rough diamond weighed 40.23 carats (8.046 g).The place where Uncle Sam was discovered is marked, and many contemporary diamonds have been found there
Edited sentence: In 1971 it was acquired by a Boston dealer, Sidney de Young, and sold for $150,000 to an anonymous private collector.It was characterized as M on the diamond color scale; this nominally corresponds to a faint yellow color, but the visual impression of Uncle Sam has been variously described as white or slight pink.It was facetted twice by Schenck & Van Haelen of New York, a company which specialized in Arkansas diamonds and had handled over 14,000 of them.Judging from the color, the diamond is most likely of pure IIa diamond type meaning the amount of impurities is below a few parts per million.Not that the value of the diamond was sufficient to cover the debts, but the discovery lifted the spirits enough to keep the surface operations.The company described those diamonds as being so hard that they could only be cut using powder of other Arkansas diamonds.The discovery of Uncle Sam has arguably rescued the Arkansas Diamond Corporation, which had a debt over US$276,470 by that time and was going to be shut down in the winter of 1924.The place where Uncle Sam was discovered is marked, and many additional diamonds have been found there.The rough diamond as originally discovered weighed 40.23 carats (8.046 g)