Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resorting to emergency techniques much the same as those used recently in Puerto Rico, British cleanup squads sprayed detergents along the coast of Cornwall after the tanker Torrey Canyon went aground last year. Scientists now report that the detergents did more damage to marine life than did the oil...
After months of study, Plymouth Laboratory Director J. E. Smith and his colleagues calculated that thousands of sea birds died from being coated with oil or from swallowing it. But except for the rosy-footed summer tourist, few other shore or sea creatures were seriously bothered by the oil. The detergents, however, killed a significant amount of sea life and seriously upset the ecology in many coastal areas...
During their research, British scientists discovered evidence that the detergent was the prime killer. Where wind and tides had shielded an occasional oil-spattered cove or bay, most flora and fauna survived...
...their endless search for water, oil and minerals beneath the surface of the earth, prospectors and scientists have used everything from divining rods to sophisticated seismic devices. But more often than not, they have had to fall back on costly and time-consuming drilling to probe the earth's secrets. Now, New Mexico's Sandia Corp. has developed new tools for preliminary subsurface exploration that may do in minutes or hours what now takes days and even months to accomplish. The new devices: high-speed, instrumented projectiles dropped from aircraft or propelled by rockets...
...source of doubt lies in statistics that concern the average American little, but worry bankers, oil sheiks, speculators and most foreign governments profoundly. In 17 of the past 18 years, the U.ST has spent, lent or given away more money than it has taken in from abroad. Compared with the size of the U.S. economy (larger than all of Europe's), that balance of payments deficit seems trivial; it has averaged a mere 0.004% of the gross national product. But the dollars thus placed in foreign hands now total $34 billion, while the U.S. stock of gold has dwindled...