Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for these outcries was largely geological. Florida gets its rain in summer, but it grows its money crops, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, avocados, celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir...
...condemn all such investigations. Far from it! But, let the Press and the public recall how many Senators have conducted as honest, fair, searching inquiries into the truth as, for example, the late Senator Walsh in the famous Teapot Dome scandal! . . . JOHN B. LUCRE Atlanta...
...British American Oil Co.'s No. 1 Piersol well. There they were taking oil at the rate of 500 bbl. an hour out of sand 6,000 ft. under the Executive Mansion. Even politics had at last placed Ernest Whitworth Marland on top of an oil dome...
...Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward, the three planets merged, shone brilliantly...
...Legion, while outwardly trying to organize some sort of fascist party, is really doing nothing more than throwing up a smoke-screen to camouflage their annual drunken spree. Truly the government is in the hands of the rabble. One day we shall awake and find the State House dome is missing...