Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ammunition drops from the sky, when its raining, or runs from the basin any other time. Victims are in every room. And so far, the only unfortunate incident has been over a budding chemist who found that acetic acid would not shoot. The milk shortage has put a damper on that ammunition for the time being...
Crimson sailors are rated a slight favorite in the second annual M.I.T. Quadrangular to be held on the Charles River Basin this afternoon...
...grey-green desert basin at Yucca Flat, Nev., some 1,500 G.I.s and technical observers huddled face down in deep, narrow trenches. If they were tense and nervous, they had reason. Never before had willing men waited so near the site of an imminent atomic explosion. Only two miles away, an A-bomb (officially called a "Nuclear Diagnostic Device") was perched on a tall steel tower, 300 feet above "Ground Zero...
Almost all privately-owned utilities of the Northwest opposed constructing the Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee projects, contending they would be enormous "white elephants." But the Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...
...Williston Basin moved into the news as the site...