Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart Ezequiel Padilla still thought he had a chance to win: ("Nothing will make me desert, even to the ultimate sacrifice if necessary.") He was counting heavily on public reaction against the corruption of officials in power, on a growing wave of popular resentment against the fantastic mordida (bite) that Mexico's venal politicos were taking from a thousand-and-one large and petty rackets, from milk distribution to street paving...
...Thermal, Calif, chapel, "conceived as an oasis in a desert community," will be built around an open court, which wall be full of green vegetation, and floodlighted at night. The congregation will be able to look at the oasis through a big glass window at the head of the chancel. A cube-shaped "tower" will house machinery tc keep parishioners cool...
When the Army had its atom bomb ready, it commandeered Laurence to write the official releases which explained the bomb. He watched the famed July 16 experiment in the New Mexico desert. Then the Army packed him off to the Pacific, to fly over Nagasaki. Last week, at last, the Army released his account of the Nagasaki raid. Thirty days after it happened, it was still top page-one news in the New York Times, and in many another paper...
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...
P.G.C. Delivers the Goods. Somehow or other, the P.G.C.'s eccentric American-Iranian production unit built two huge General Motors assembly plants in the heart of the desert, and even got so that it could put a truck together in five minutes flat. P.G.C. engineers carried on from there. Every day bulldozers roared out into the desert, every day the new asphalt highway stretched a few miles farther...