Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow gold has sent Freeport Sulphur Co. deep into the marshes of the Mississippi delta country, drilling from rigs floated atop steel barges or straddled on a forest of pilings. The risks of searching for sulphur are high (the company lost $1.5 million drilling into one barren offshore salt dome last year alone), the costs of mining it even higher. But willingness to take the risks built Freeport into the second biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week Freeport tackled...
Freeport agreed to develop the Grand isle Block 18 dome (estimated reserves: upwards of 30 million tons), which was discovered in 1954 by Humble Oil & Refining Co. while drilling for oil under 45 ft. of water* six miles off the Louisiana coast. The two companies will split evenly the after-tax profits from production, which is due to start in 1960. But Freeport must first spend about $30 million in mining equipment and port facilities. To pay off its investment in Grand Isle Block 18, Freeport must mine 500,000 to 600,000 tons there every year-almost one-tenth...
John McCormack, majority leader in the House, thanked her bravely, and launched into an attack on appeasement in the Middle East. He was interrupted by a booming voice from the third row. "Did you want another war?" a heavy man with a bald dome surrounded by a white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over...
...first year, some 180,000 people saw it, and by last year the entire original production cost of $125,000 was paid off.) Georges Van Parys, one of France's best-known movie composers, did the music for the simpler spectacle at Compiègne, the rural pleasure dome of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Other pageants are staged at Avignon, 14th century home of the exiled Popes; at Chenonceaux, onetime home of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry...
Next on Kaiser's toy pile: an aluminum-domed arena to house a radio and color TV station, a movie sound stage, a theater in the round, a combination ice rink and supper club, an 1,800-seat auditorium. When asked how he is going to make the aluminum dome look Polynesian, Kaiser replied confidently: "I'll stick living palm trees through the roof...