Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drives 12,000 or more miles a year in heavy traffic is exposed to exhaust fumes that multiply his risk of lung cancer by as much as two or three. And the rate is doubled for those who live in smoke-polluted, downtown areas like Cincinnati's "Basin" district. A heavy-smoking cab driver who lives there multiplies his danger by all these factors and runs a risk of lung cancer 40 to 120 times greater than that of a nonsmoking farmer...
...expected, the Eliot crew yesterday defeated four other boats to capture the House championship. Stroked by last year's freshman heavy captain, Henry Jordan, the Elephants led all the way over a mile course in the Basin and finished three lengths ahead...
...concrete flats to clay or composition, or better build a dozen clay courts in the ample meadow beyond the present two rows. Setting upwind-breaks of bushes or canvas around the fences is another necessary step. At present, the courts are whipped by high winds coming off the river basin, even on relatively calm days...
...Britain-were ready with a program that accented economic rather than military measures. Henderson, backed by President Eisenhower's request for $100 million from Congress for special Middle East aid, pitched right in. Sample projects agreed on: a joint five-nation study for development of the Tigris-Euphrates basin's water resources, a joint board to help coordinate development projects in all pact countries. Enrolling the U.S. as a full member of the pact's economic committee, Henderson sought to show that no new colonialism was intended: "We desire to work with groups of nations which have...
...Marshall Plan, at least when it was first announced, was not proposed to the American people as simply another exercise in Maginot wall-building. On the contrary, it was presented as a genuine attempt to treat the world we live in, or at least the nations of the Atlantic Basin which are historically and culturally closest to us, as a community...