Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busy Gravedigger. As the refugees fled to greener lands, they buried their dead along the way, piling stones to keep off animals and topping the graves with crude wooden crosses. "We are working hard," said a gravedigger in the parched town of Juàzeiro do Norte, where funerals can be bought for 4?. "We have twelve children to bury every day. It used to be one or two." Health officials estimated that in the worst drought areas half of all children under a year old would...
Pakistan has lost considerable ground because of a sharp fall in cotton (23% of its exports) prices and drop in the volume of its jute (44% of exports) trade. Indonesia is sorely pressed by a 20% drop in crude rubber prices since 1956; so is Thailand. Malayan tin exports are off 50% this year, and 25% of the tin mines are shut down. From a healthy budget surplus in 1956, Malaya has gradually slipped into a $39 million deficit this year...
...Soviets, using U.S. accomplishments as targets even in their weak areas, have plans to produce by 1972 as much crude oil as the U.S. pumps...
Voyages to distant planets seemed blissfully easy a few years ago, because they were theoretical. Now that satellites, the first crude spaceships, are actually on orbit, spacemen are being asked to deliver real transportation, and a voyage even to the nearby moon looks disturbingly hard. The Astronautics Symposium sponsored in Denver last week by the Air Force and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences heard more about the staggering difficulties of space flight than about its rosy prospects...
...This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...