Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
What the U.S. needed was a superman like Paul Bunyan. Paul did a lot of sizable things. He dug out Lake Michigan to mix concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...
Congressional tempers have simmered and boiled at reports that Army & Navy commanders overseas were destroying surplus property to get it off their hands. Last week, along with pictures of trucks and other material dumped in the Pacific Ocean, a House Committee finally got the services to admit that it might...
...Petroleum deposits lying between the ocean's low-tide mark and the three-mile limit. For several years control of tidelands oil has been a hot federal-state controversy. A federal suit to obtain title is pending in the Supreme Court; a bill to give title to the states is pending in the Senate...
...late, famed dodo bird died of stupidity sometime in the 17th Century. A clumsy, pigeon-like groundling, larger than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...