Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent producers do, and they argue bitterly that cheap foreign oil is wrecking domestic markets, keeping prices at low levels when they need more money to pour into new exploration. Importers (i.e.. Gulf Oil Corp., Shell Oil, Standard Oil of N.J.) counter that high imports are necessary to keep down prices by filling the gap between U.S. production and consumption, and that the import restrictions are in conflict with U.S. aims for freer world trade...
...figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...
...rush, the reporters manage to pour out a steady flow of copy: 80,000 words a day from Stevenson, 40,000 from Nixon, 15,000 from Kefauver. Privately, though 27 felt uncertain about the election's outcome, 36 out of the 44 who ventured a forecast picked the candidate who has yet to hit the campaign trail: President Eisenhower...
...when Jacob Mayer of the Ruhr's Bochumer Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing...
...Pour the crimson in me, Jimson...