Word: ashli
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...confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick. But, reported the Philadelphia Bulletin, it is "a curiously unfocused play." Authors Lawrence and Lee were still hopefully rewriting...
...recent discovery is evidence that an enormous volcanic eruption may have darkened the sky when man was in his stone-chipping stage. Cruising down the west coast of South America, Lament's Vema discovered a layer of clean white volcanic ash up to twelve inches thick. Other explorations have found layers of similar ash in many parts of the Pacific and Atlantic. Dr. Ewing suspects that all the ash came from a series of stupendous eruptions along the spine of the Andes, estimates the date as 68,000 years ago. It must have been a black time for paleolithic...
...plant: oxidizing agents cause fireless combustion of organic waste right in the sewage water. The combustion not only purifies the water, but also produces steam to operate the plant with enough left over, in some cases, to sell as commercial power. The only residue is an inoffensive and inert ash heavy enough to use as land fill. Sterling estimates that operating cost of the Chicago plant will be $12 to $15 per ton of sludge v. $45 per ton for older methods. Sterling does not expect to make much of a profit on the Chicago plant, but hopes it will...
...tucked his cigarette behind his ear, lit. One girl snickered. "Well, anyway, he used to work for all these causes. You know, the dockworkers, integration, the miners--there's always a cause to work for if you've got the ambition." He flicked the ash into his dungaree cuff...
...sixth position, John Davis had only slightly more difficulty in defeating Ash Eldredge, 15-12, 17-15, 12-15, 15-11, and at eighth singles Wally Stimpson ran through Terry Fuller...