Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...
This year's total crop production, the Agriculture Department estimated last week, will be second only to 1948's record. And this is being added to growing surpluses piled up from previous years. One reason for the wheat pile-up is the slump in exports, down 94 million bu. (or about 37%) in 1953's first half. Corn, the nation's biggest crop, is also heading for a glut. By October, stocks are expected to reach 4.1 billion bu., largest in U.S. history. Acreage allotments for corn are inescapable...
...guess about trucks turned out to be right anyway. When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger blustered that Dagmar Peters had tried...
...Shane and Sudden Fear, has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood. His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile...
...certainty that total military protection is unattainable. Indeed, the attempt to achieve it ... would demand a state of ... regimentation. There is also the ever-present struggle ... of service partisans for a larger proportion of the defense dollar ... These attitudes, among others, find expression in the current effort to pile dollars upon unexpended dollars in Air Force appropriations. Actually, the major portion of the Air Force reduction is simply application of rationality to requests for new appropriations so that previous over-funding of Air Force requirements can be eliminated . . . The new Joint Chiefs of Staff are soon to examine our entire...