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...mixture of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide, first made in 1824 by an English mason, Joseph Aspdin. The greyish color of the compound, cooked in a kiln, reminded him of stone quarried from the Isle of Portland off the British coast...
...from one old friend, borrowed $100 from another and bought a secondhand drilling rig. On his first try, at a depth of 73 feet, the rig broke down. Steen, who had no money to buy a Geiger counter, borrowed one from a friend to test a sample of the greyish black rock brought up by the drill. The needle nearly jumped from the dial of the instrument. "We've found it!" cried Charlie. "We've found a million dollars...
...jets roared up from the Korean airfield and headed north for MIG Alley. For half an hour they climbed steadily, timing their ascent to conserve fuel and reach the Yalu at 45,000 ft. At that altitude, everything was silvery and incredibly bright; above, the sky was dark and greyish...
...shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next to the weathered greys, faded beiges and crumbling burnt oranges of past glories stand refurbished or new buildings glinting with fresh...
Highland Home. Above the slopes, where derby-hatted women miners pick and sort the greyish-blue lumps for milling, are Huanuni's strings of company-built miners' homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure...