Word: layering
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Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...
...locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under the spring sun. At night the invaders ceased their rustling and grating, huddled in great clumps on whitewashed walls; in some villages they blanketed every house and path with a layer three to four inches thick...
After an eruption has released the pressure, the top layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...
Lionel Barrymore, after acting it for years, hit 68, and Hollywood hit him with a set of monkeyshines worth 70 (see cut). It was a three-layer celebration: 68 years in the world at large, 50 in the theater, 30 in Hollywood...
...only a small percentage of the 15,000 have been placed-1,654 with the Army and 270 with UNRRA. Since military rank does not figure in the qualifications, many a former enlisted man has turned up in an upper-layer job. The head of UNRRA's motor pool, at a salary of $5,000, is an ex-corporal. UNRRA's chief clerk, at $4,600, is an ex-sergeant...