Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales: $445 million) has enjoyed a near monopoly on production. As late as 1951 Inco's mining facilities in Ontario's rocky Sudbury Basin supplied 85% of the free world's nickel and 95% of the nickel used by the U.S. During World War II the scarcity of nickel was so acute that the U.S. began stockpiling-almost entirely from Inco. But the U.S. did not take to dependence on Inco, began to develop other sources. Last week the General Services Administration told Inco that it is "not interested" in the company's offer to supply...
Back from the Dead. As June ended the snow receded, Steeves packed some strawberries and a couple of fish, finally made it over Granite Pass and came down into Granite Basin. One day last week one of the season's first camping parties heard the clatter of rock, looked up to see a heavily bearded, gaunt figure (he had lost about 30 lbs.) sitting on a rock munching strawberries. The campers shook their heads at his story, reckoned that he had walked about 100 miles, eased him on a horse to the nearest ranger station. From there he went...
Today-only 71 years later-Los Angeles groans in the echo of that cry. A once meager patch of sand in Southern California, its rubber-band boundaries stretch past a natural basin rimmed by mountains, flow over the hilltops and peaks into the valleys and deserts beyond, nudge the very Pacific beaches...
Even bigger and better marinas are on the way. Near Los Angeles, where the Wilmington East Basin Yacht Center already serves more than 1,200 boats, the State of California is spending $14 million for one of the world's biggest marinas with dock and service facilities for 1,800 boats at Alamitos Bay, hopes to, have it finished by 1960. In the Puget Sound area half a dozen new marinas are abuilding, including one $500,000 anchorage at Roche Harbor with a special customs-immigration office to speed Canada-bound yachtsmen on their way. Marina Builder Charles...
...might have guessed, very little was to become of it. The Trojans called for 20 principal singers, two choruses, ten different sets, hunters on horseback, ships moving out of a harbor, naiads swimming in "a natural basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse. With the creaky stage equipment of the 19th century, the giant workrivaling Wagner's marathons in sizecould not be performed in much less than seven hours. Berlioz himself heard it only in truncated form, and since his death it has never been given...