Word: crust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...
...Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians...
...mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year. Since world production of columbium cannot be stepped up for another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds in titanium-bearing ore. But turning it into metal is an immensely difficult process. It reacts so violently with oxygen that the ingots must be melted in a vacuum, or under a blanket of inert...
...Some Crust. In Mexico City, police shut three bakeries and jailed the bakers for using motor oil in baking bread...
...exploded in a great sheet of jagged white fire. Flaming debris smoked and crackled on the black water. While the emergency team went to work, the carrier continued on its course. There was no confusion. From amidships, men threw float lights overboard as the still-blazing crust of the crashed Corsair slid past. On the bridge, Captain William Gallery, the Princeton's commander, swore stoutly...