Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...
...bomb, of unusually low energy yield because of the unusually high hazard, was buried in the earth at an undisclosed depth. When it exploded, it gave little light, heat or blast, but it raised into the air a many-fingered fountain of dirt or shattered rock. Most of this material was so heavy that it fell back immediately, spreading radioactivity for a considerable distance. A radioactive dust cloud hung in the air for 3½ hours, but did not move far from the crater...
...wealth that pours up out of the ground here is used to improve almost every state but Zulia (this one); a drive through the oilfields will leave you appalled by the dirt, squalor and misery that is the lot of anyone not lucky enough to be employed by the oil companies...
Best Marks. Through the week TV's own writers, actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory...
With its empire gone, Japan is a harsh and meager land. It cannot feed itself. It cannot provide raw materials for its factories. Its population grows by 1,000,000 a year, yet of its land-a total area smaller than California-a mere 17% is arable. Dirt is so precious that graves are limited to two square feet (cremation is almost universal in Japan). Factories, and the machines in them, are in advanced obsolescence. There are not enough jobs, though many tasks are featherbedded to employ two craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do. Costs...