Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cards are used in all of the tests. There are 25 cards in a dock, five each of five different symbols. The telepathic sender draws a card from the deck and thinks of it, and the receiver attempts to name what variety...
...tideland oil fight currently raging in the Capitol has become a gigantic political card game. The deck includes the biggest lobbies in Congressional history, divergent social philosophies, charges of thievery and corruption, and numerous side issues. the stakes are oil, currently the nation's most important natural resource. Peacetime use of oil has steadily increased, creating an unexpected and unfilled post-war demand, and its wartime value has made the possession of large oil reserves a modern prerequisite of modern warfare...
...American Independent Oil Co., which last year won the oil concession to Sheik Ahmad's half of the neutral zone (TIME, July 19), sent him a token of gratitude: a 195-foot diesel yacht, complete with 25-man crew, dishes, linen, and a sheep pen on the upper deck. "There's nothing elaborate about it," said American Independent's President Ralph Davies. "It's merely in good taste, and appropriate. He's the ruler of a country; he can't be expected to ride in a rowboat...
Next month, Budd told his Aurora hosts, the Burlington will introduce its "Vista Dome" double-deck coaches on the Chicago-San Francisco run, with six new streamliners costing about $15 million. The Q cannot compete, timewise, with the Union Pacific, which has a much shorter route. So Budd shrewdly decided, by use of the Vista Dome, to "sell the breath-taking scenery" of the road's route through the Colorado Rockies and California's Feather River Canyon...
...world was ready for use. Thrusting his Holiday under his arm and picking up his Spring Activities Circular, or Catalogue as it was called, Vag started toward the Yard. The day was warm and several couples were lounging on the steps of Emerson; strange the management had forgotten the deck chairs that morning. Vag shook his head reproachfully and looked through the Circular to see what was doing at 11:00. So many interesting things; the management was doing its best to keep everybody occupied. He picked out an activity meeting on the first floor and sallied in, nodding...