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...putting out to sea on a dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Round Three. Snead, who had tried twelve times and failed to win the Open, jubilantly figured he had plumbed Oakmont's secret. In his best hillbilly drawl, Sam explained: "You gotta sneak up on these holes. Effen you clamber and clank up on 'em, they're liable to turn around and bite you." By the 45th hole, Snead had a one-stroke lead. But at the end of the round, Hogan, playing in his shirtsleeves now, had the lead back-by one stroke-with a 73 to Snead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Closed Open | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...innumerable differences of opinion. This year Idaho's Governor Len Jordan asked that the slots be banned statewide, and the fight spread to the legislature. The house finally agreed with him, and last week the state senate did so, too. At midnight of next December 31, the clank of the bandits will be stilled, and Idaho will begin trying to get back to normal again after its noisy and neon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Out, Damned Slot | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Office of Price Stabilization was in the midst of grinding out a new price regulation last week when it got word of President Eisenhower's intention to bring an orderly end to all economic controls (except for rent and strategic materials controls). With an anguished clank, OPS and other control agencies shifted quickly into reverse, began to grind out new plans for orderly decontrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The New Freedom | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...back and argue around the issue. What the Council can do is to force a decision by polling the resident students. If they are willing to suffer a slight inconvenience for the sake of the commuters, then McNiff's dogged reasoning will have a very hollow clank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cut Curfew | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

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