Word: graze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand-new $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center southeast of Houston, near Galveston Bay (see color). Started only three years ago, the center now has more than 30 completed buildings that rise like an attractive college campus above the dreary salt flats where scraggly Brahman cattle used to graze. Another 15 buildings are planned or under construction...
...taught 500 grade-school children crowded out of the town's inadequate Negro schools. When Owens arrived, Selma was down to barely 100 students, including some still completing high school, and its five buildings were going to ruin. On 21 acres of flat land where brown cows still graze, the school consisted of two aging red brick dormitories, a tiny red cafeteria and a dilapidated classroom building called Dinkins Hall. "The floors were so bad you got splinters if you wore thin shoes," Owens recalls. There was another academic building, but it had to be torn down at once...
...Room to Graze. B.A.S.F. has already outgrown Ludwigshafen, and its reach now extends far beyond the Rhine; 45% of sales, in fact, come from exports and foreign production. To expand foreign operations even more, B.A.S.F. has joined with Shell to build a fertilizer plant in Utrecht and an ammonia plant near Rotterdam, plans a $17.5 million polyethylene plant near Marseille. Last year it bought land in Antwerp for a $50 million factory that will produce fertilizer and synthetic fibers, and moved into Mexico by acquiring a local chemical firm. In the U.S., the company's biggest foreign customer, B.A.S.F...
...plantation society has deteriorated. The gooey black clay that attracted some of the state's first permanent settlers is no longer fertile. Farmers are fleeing to the big cities, their lands taken over by a few big cattle operators who strip the fields, turn it back into pasture, graze huge herds. This is where such oil millionaires as H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson and the Murchisons hit big money in the 1930s. And it is where the "whipstock," a curving drill stem that steals oil from other wells, was long king...
...rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...