Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old seismic tests are unhealed. Debris remains and remains, its decay slowed by the cold. A piece of wood was recently retrieved from a depth of 1,400 feet, where it had been lodged between two coal seams many millions of years old. It looked like a fresh chip. In 1968, a search party dug up the body of Charles Francis Hall, an explorer who was buried in a shallow grave at Greenland in 1871. He was almost recognizable...
...Detroit potato-chip manufacturer offers flag decals with his jumbo size. In Chicago, the Cubs announcer, Jack Brickhouse, appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white...
...rich grow richer while the bulk of U.S. workers are denied an opportunity to obtain a worthwhile share of the nation's abundance. What Kelso wants to do is turn 80 million workers into capitalists through a complex maneuver that would enable almost everybody to buy blue-chip stocks with borrowed money and ultimately enjoy a "second income" from the dividends...
During an electronics experiment at Albuquerque's Sandia Laboratories, a scientist accidentally sent a pulse of electricity through a dime-sized ceramic chip. He watched in amazement as the ceramic abruptly changed color. Now, after four years of study and further tests, Sandia experimenters believe that the chance observation may have spawned an entirely new technology that will eventually have wide applications in computers and communications...
Bombed to rubble in World War II, Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...