Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike was made in Les Landes (The Wastelands), a barren, 110-mile-long strip of sand dunes and pines along the Bay of Biscay inhabited up to now chiefly by woodcutters and sheepherders. Geologists had long suspected that there was oil beneath the pines and sand dunes. But the French had not been able to find...
Returning from a uranium-prospecting jaunt in the barren countryside of Queens land, Australia one day last month a jeepload of weekend prospectors bogged down in a creek. Four got out to push while a fifth, Timberman Norman McConachie, idly strolled along the creek bank with a Geiger counter. He spotted a promising rock and put his counter to it. The needle jiggled up to 2,500 on the dial. With darkness falling, the five went home to the little mining town of Mount Isa. Three days later they were back, with three others, to check thoroughly on nearby rocks...
...pushbutton ceremony climaxed one of the great hands-across-the-border industrial ventures of modern times. As long as half a century ago, geologists were sure that iron ore lay buried beneath the lichens of barren Ungava, but there seemed no practical and profitable way of moving it from the subarctic wilderness. In 1942 Jules Robert Timmins, Montreal gold-mining magnate, decided to take the challenge. Last week, as he watched the first boatload of Ungava ore leave for the U.S., Jules Timmins, 66, could claim success. "It is the realization of [my] dreams, hopes and plans," he said...
Some 15,000 homeless people struggled out of the muck to the barren hills beyond; 39 were known dead, 90 were reported missing, and many unrecorded migrants were lost. Downriver at Laredo, the sullen, muddy river crested at 62.2 ft., a good 10 ft. higher than the previous record and 20 ft. higher than the International Bridge, which was swept away...
...centuries before and after King Xerxes camped there with his Persians waiting to do battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the plain of Anthele lay bleached and barren. No trees grew to shade its parched acres from the relentless Grecian sun; no water flowed over the bank of the winding Sperchios River to wash them clear of salt and alkali. For generations, no local farmer even bothered to put his plow to the 9,000 useless acres of the plain, and even those who worked the stingy lands on its edge were forced to content themselves with only the scantiest...