Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the high mountains of central Shantung. Their job was to harry the Government's communications and hold villagers to the Communist line as they had been held since the Japs left in 1945. Then on a hot, dusty day, Government troops appeared before Paiyen's low mud walls...
...great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through weeks of mud, mosquitoes and midnight...
Into the Pan? The tiny larvae that hatch from the eggs bury themselves in mud, their mouths barely exposed. For about five years they lead a quiet, clam-like life, feeding on floating plankton. Then they turn into adolescent lampreys eight inches long, with suckers thirsting for fish blood...
...Oosten hopes that this cycle can be interrupted somehow. One scheme: electrically charged barriers across the mouths of streams where lampreys spawn. This scheme may keep the eggs from hatching properly. Another plan: to shock the buried larvae by electrodes thrust into their mud beds. Dr. Van Oosten (and Lake fishermen) hope that Congress will not economize on a $20,000 appropriation promised for these experiments...
...Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them out of the mud...