Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Fort Worth civic leaders heard a Los Angeles and Manhattan community planner unveil a bold solution to their problem. They were advised to dig deep into the heart of their beloved Texas to create subterranean truck lanes, park every arriving automobile, and turn streets within a downtown square mile into a pedestrians' paradise of shrubbery, statuary, malls, covered walks and sidewalk cafes. The cost ($100 million, according to some guesses) would be partially paid in parking fees and through higher tax values...
After two weeks of bickering over the latter committee's personnel, the new investigation seems almost ready to begin. Headed by Arkansas' John L. McClellan, the special body will undertake a comprehensive inquiry which, if it can dig out the full story on lobbying, should prove most salutary both for the Senate and for the nation. But beyond its educational function, the McClellan group can serve a useful purpose by recommending much-needed changes in federal laws regulating lobbying...
...skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...
...linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often more valuable that the minerals beneath, so a mining company may sell lumber at great prices and never dig a shaft...
...need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite much open air bureaucracy, engineers are trying to determine the exact location of the break, while workmen continually dig. The search is complicated by high tension wires underground near the break, and "Those things can kill...