Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carbide's Marietta plant, which makes iron alloys necessary for the production of steel, releases 44,568 pounds of dirt and dust and 246,550 pounds of sulfur oxides every day into the Ohio valley air, not from smoke-stacks, but from large holes in the roof of the factory...
Carbide operates a factory in Alloy, W. Va., a company town, which emits five times as much dirt, dust, and particulate matter every day as the city of San Francisco. The death rate from lung cancer in this factory's county is three times the national average...
...nick-of-time rescue? Those were the days when Indians were really serviceable. No worry about characterization, no need for realistic detail or historical recreation. Just trot them out on stage and as quickly do them in. Those were the days when Indians died by simply biting the dust. No questions asked. No catharsis...
...customs and rituals. Yet, for a twentieth-century white audience, what resulted was at best incomprehensible, at worst comic and condescending. (Like the absurdity of Dame Judith Anderson playing a wizened old Indian shrew.) Perhaps the Indians were better off in those days when they simply bit the dust. It certainly was less painful for them...
...scientists, in any case, agreed that the maria are probably quite alike, a view supported by the first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers...