Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known glory as General John J. Pershing's personal staff car when he shuttled between French battlefields in World War I, wound up in the hands of a French junkman named Eugene Chaveneau. With a clear eye on turning a modest profit, Junkie Chaveneau coolly announced that the relic will be scrapped unless, for historical or sentimental reasons, it attracts a buyer by month...
These are very lively relics of a U.S. past that has died in most other parts of the West. But the Inland Empire is no relic; harder perhaps than any other region, it is riding toward the future. In the Columbia Basin, settlers are filling up newly irrigated farm lands. Power from McNary, Hungry Horse and other dams is attracting new industry and population to the cities. Long an inland colony, the Inland Empire is getting ready to live up to its proud name...
...irritation between the two nations: possession of western New Guinea, which is still under Dutch rule. The infant Indonesian government, which has trouble enough trying to maintain order over its 78 million people, demands western New Guinea too. But The Netherlands refuses to give it up as the last relic of its imperial prestige in the area...
Fluorine Proof. Last week they got the news. Dr. Stewart had fitted about 60 of the fragments into part of a skull, and he was convinced that it is extremely old for a relic of New World man. Dr. F. J. McClure of the National Institute of Health analyzed both animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom...
Familiar Symbol. Mills and Smith photographed all the stones and reported to Professor Ignacio Bernal, one of Mexico's top archeologists, at Oaxaca City. Bernal recognized the style of the first stone. It was Zapotec, a relic of a high culture that centered around Oaxaca City and reached its peak during the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Until now, said Bernal, there has been no evidence that the Zapotec culture ever extended as far as the Rio Grande region. The carved symbols on the stone are probably dates, and they may be a help toward deciphering the hieroglyphic writing...