Word: oilfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy column theoretically bearing toward it. This job was given to the U.S. paratroopers, who dropped in front of the invaders. At the same time, a U.S. amphibious force in the Persian Gulf sent a marine rifle com pany storming onto the island of Kharg to protect an imaginary oilfield against invasion or sabotage...
...RUMANIA. Rebelling against its COMECON-assigned role as Eastern Europe's vegetable garden and oilfield, Rumania has turned to the West for iron and aluminum plants. A new three-year trade agreement with West Germany provides for an exchange of goods worth $300 million. But Rumania must finance industrialization by exporting food. The unhappy result is a severe food shortage and painfully high prices; eggs go for 20? apiece...
Bonus for Breakthroughs. Productivity is being increased partly by men but mostly by machines. In the past five years, such devices as continuous mining machines, automatic freight yards and automated pipeline networks have increased the productivity of coal miners by 35%, rail workers and oilfield roughnecks...
...Even a Yelp. Last July, when X rays disclosed that she was carrying a fivesome, Venezuela's Inés Maria Cuervo, 34, fainted dead away. Once revived, the mother-to-be, the common-law wife of an oilfield worker, was tucked into bed at Maracaibo's University Hospital, put on a strict diet, and watched around the clock by doctors and nurses. During the delivery, she was conscious and calm. "At least let out a yelp," pleaded one nurse, "so we know you are having a baby." Her tiny boys arrived over a period of 50 minutes...
...coast of South West Africa last week, an ungainly craft went about its unlikely work-sucking diamonds, along with tons of silt and rock, from the sea bottom. Barge 77, the world's only floating diamond mine, is the brainchild of Texan Sammy Collins, 48, a stocky, onetime oilfield roustabout who amassed a fortune in the exacting business of laying underwater pipeline. Intrigued by diamonds during an African engineering job, Collins went underseas prospecting in 1961 despite geologists' warnings that he was wasting his time and money, risked $6,000,000 to back his venture. Says Sammy...