Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain that unless liberty of movement is maintained on Quincy, bicycles will rust in the stalls by the river dorms and Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg will have no more attendance than Soliders Field now on a Saturday afternoon...
...shed at Mexico City's airport one day last week, a mariachi band struck up Guadalajara. After a suitably dramatic pause, smiling Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer, wife of the 41st U.S. envoy to Mexico, appeared in the plane's doorway, slim in a dark suit and rust-colored hat. Ambassador William O'Dwyer followed her into the morning sunshine...
...only ten combat divisions. And even those were sadly understaffed, full of green troops, and underequipped. U.S. tanks, almost all left over from World War II, were obsolescent; antitank weapons were out of date. Most of World War II's mighty Navy lay cocooned, prepared to fight off rust rather than an enemy. Even the Air Force, the strategic bombing darling of military planners, had to scramble to find planes to give ground troops limited tactical support...
...steel industry gets most of its iron ore from the vast ranges of northern Minnesota, where the rich, rust-like dust can be shoveled up from the ground. But by 1970, or sooner, the open-pit ranges of Minnesota will be scraped bare...
From windows of San Francisco hilltop buildings last week, office workers saw six rust-splotched cargo vessels towed through the bay. They were the first of 16 merchant ships which the Military Sea Transportation Service had ordered yanked from its "mothball" reserve fleet...