Word: deposits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story Lorraine Hotel to his flock's big, heavenly real-estate holdings. Making a visitation with his blonde wife and some of his "angels," he announced a new regime in Lorraine management: no drinking, profanity, or smoking, segregation of the sexes by floors. To a $25,000 cash deposit, the purchasing angels added cardboard boxes containing small bills. After two hours, four bank employees had counted...
Plant-Formed Soil. The prize virgin soils of temperate regions are the chernozems.* They develop in dryish regions like Iowa and the Ukraine, where the climate naturally favors the growth of tall grasses. The grasses deposit a great deal of organic material in the soil, forming a dark brown, almost black layer a foot or more deep. This (and the slight rainfall) keeps soluble nutrients from leaching away...
...models appeared, townsfolk of Edwardsville, Il11. (pop. 8,100) noticed that strapping Bob Knetzer was a miracle man at finding cars for people with cash. What's more, he sold them at list price, and delivered them in 30 to 90 days. All he demanded was a deposit of at least $1,000. Cadillacs and Chevrolets were his specialties...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
There was every likelihood that J. Strom Thurmond would be an even smaller deposit of sediment than Harry Truman. As the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, he did not stand a chance in the world. He might capture as many as 50 electoral votes-next to Bull Mooser Theodore Roosevelt's 88 in 1912, the biggest block ever won by a third-party candidate. He was the result of Harry Truman's political courage-or lack of political acumen. His appearance had marked the collapse of the compromises which had held the Democratic Party together for 16 years...