Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Chicago last week. But although the thunder rumbled and dark clouds gathered along the horizon, the lightning did no serious damage, at least none up to convention's eve. In the week before the Democratic National Convention began, there were simply too many lightning rods around to divert...
Besides generating 90 million kilowatts to light the houses that will dot the new green fields, the dams will divert the pent-up waters through some 900 miles of new canals and ditches to irrigate an estimated 150,000 acres of barren southern plains around the capital city of Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living...
NICKEL SHORTAGE is growing so serious that ODM will divert 40 million Ibs. from strategic stockpiles to private industry. Total diversions thus far in 1956: nearly 55 million...
...slave laborers first heard the news from crewmen on cargo vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on a project to divert the Yenisei into a vast inland sea for irrigating arid Kazakstan) saw a new day dawning...
NICKEL PINCH will be eased by more metal from the Government stockpile. After diverting 12 million Ibs. during the first quarter, the Office of Defense Mobilization will divert another 18 million Ibs. in the second quarter...