Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Varner Steel Products' President R. G. Varner, who bought his first plane five years ago to spread out from Pine Bluff, Ark., selling his company's light steel pipe and other products. Says he: "In 1952 we did a gross business of $218,000. This year we are doing a gross business of almost $1,000,000, and we have extended our work into Canada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Virginia...
BETTY ARNRED Hot Springs, Ark...
Sens. McClellan (D-Ark.) and Humphrey (D-Minn.) announced they would introduce a bill establishing a department of science and technology under a secretary who would direct the government's civilian science activities...
Ziusudra's Ark. For the bare bones of her account, Author Hill uses the 377 verses of the Bible (Genesis 11:27-25:11). To flesh them out she draws upon The Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
...theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from the ark...