Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network of small plants for building materials and consumer goods is well established, does O.C.I, recommend hydroelectric plants on the northern slopes of the Elborz mountains, national reforestation projects, and irrigation programs in the desert regions of Lar and Jajirud basins and in. the Zayandeh...
...their surprise they get 1000 feet from the top--and had to turn back because of a food shortage. A few years later a Harvard man and a Dartmouth man made headlines by rescuing a starving aviator from Devil's Tower, a fantastic-looking column jutting from the Wyoming desert. It seems that the flyer, who parachuted onto the tower on a bet, had imprudently neglected to make further plans...
...White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., reached an altitude of 95 miles. The most important man in the act, at least to innocent bystanders, was Herbert L. Karsch, flight safety officer. Karsch's job is to keep rockets from leaving the 90-by-35-mile area of uninhabited desert and mountains where they are supposed to hit. The authorities would consider it unfortunate, for instance, if a wandering rocket were to smack El Paso...
About the time of Christ, he died in a valley near Pisco,* on the coast of southern Peru. He was probably a high priest or a chieftain because his honored body had been carefully wrapped in layers & layers of cloth and buried far out on a barren desert. As the centuries passed, his people were killed or dispersed and all memory of them vanished. Last week his mummy, unwrapped with loving care at New York's American Museum of Natural History, showed what an odd and gorgeous culture had flowered in a desert-ringed Peruvian valley 20 centuries...
...seconds later, a radio signal from the control room exploded a small charge and blew off the rocket's nose. Unstream-lined by separation, the parts tumbled over & over. As they fell toward the earth, observers saw silvery flashes of sunlight reflected from aluminum. Dust rose from the desert, and back from eight miles away came a muffled sound of an alcohol-oxygen explosion...