Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
This year's drought, the worst in ten years, puts Spain in a desperate position. Grain is critically short--Madrid's otherwise fertile surrounding plains were brown scorched dust. Necessary raw materials, except in the relatively prosperous Barcelona section, are virtually non-existent, partly because of Spain's low productivity, and partly because of few favorable trade agreements; mechanical equipment such as tractors is for the far-distant future. Railroad stock, built before the 1936 Civil War, is worn out: trains are the slowest, dirtiest, most uncomfortable in Europe...
Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris of The Browning Version is not just grey from pedagogical dust, but is black and withered with failure. Disliked by his pupils, disdained by the headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows...
Last week the State Department let it be known that the gesture was not quite so generous as it had seemed. After turning down her request for aid to China, the Government-while waiting for China's dust to settle-found time to send her a $9,002 bill for airplane transportation. She paid promptly. When she travels to Formosa this month, it will be by commercial airliner...
...Star Dust. In Texas' Scurry County, on a 1,700-acre tract leased by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped...