Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night's mists. The deck must be kept dry so that the men don't slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust and mud chemicals. I never knew 14 days could take so long." Smiley Dunaway, 55, from Columbia, Miss., who has worked as a roustabout for 20 years, put two boys through college on his earnings. "But it cost me two-thirds of my life on the gulf...
...warned by the state health department last year that their drinking water contained enough sodium to endanger the lives of people with heart or kidney ailments who were on strict low-salt diets. Tests in Minnesota disclosed that even the anticorrosive additives in the salts, designed to prevent auto rust, can do more harm than good: phosphates in the additives are nutrients that can speed eutrophication, the natural aging process of bodies of water. Some additives used to prevent the salts' caking contain compounds that decompose into poisonous cyanide ions...
Edible Paper. In Manhattan this week, officials of the Aluminum Association and The Rust Engineering Co. announced plans for a $15.8 million recycling plant near Washington. The plan has been submitted for consideration to the nonprofit National Center for Solid Waste Disposal, Inc., which evaluates and promotes waste-disposal techniques presented by various industries. If such industries are willing to share the cost, the plant will serve as a "national laboratory" where municipalities and private contractors can shop for ideas...
Missiles and Balloons. On balance, Aswan should prove a tremendous boon to Egypt's 34 million people. To protect it, batteries of SA3 missiles and Soviet-built ZSU-234 antiaircraft guns bristle in the rust-colored sand and rock ringing the dam's foaming gorge. Every night barrage balloons are winched up for added cover against Israeli bombers...
...Brain Rust. In a refreshingly novel way, Hoot Owl follows standard newspaper style. It has movie, TV and record reviews; it prints a clever pictorial TV log for those who cannot read time; it includes society, travel and sports columns. The tabloid was started by Dane Edwards, 34, owner of a small professional speakers' bureau, to help some neighborhood children. It now operates with a staff of eight (unpaid except for soda pop and snack expenses), a waiting list of 23 and a mandatory retirement age of 16. Edwards and his wife Janie keep their editing and layout help...