Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...petition, they could not determine what had happened to some $60 million in metal reserves the company had claimed to be holding. Only about $900,000 worth of metal owned by Saxon's company was found in 200-ft.-deep underground vaults managed by Perpetual Storage Inc. near Salt Lake City. A Brink's vault in Los Angeles contained an additional $150,000 in metal for Saxon's company. The Bullion Reserve records showed that the firm had loaned at least $13 million to Saxon and his wife and more to other companies they controlled. According...
With 9000 Cornellians shouting "Good-bye, Harvard" and the score already 34-14, Cornell's own third-stringer pours salt in the Crimson wounds with a 79-yard touchdown pass in the final minute...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American- TIME, Feb. 25]? THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
Driving down a deserted beach road at midnight on the island resort of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Senator Edward Kennedy lost control of his car. The black 1967 Oldsmobile 88 careened off a 10-ft.-wide wooden bridge leading to the dunes, and overturned in a salt pond. Somehow, Ted Kennedy escaped. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, a pretty, witty blonde who had worked as a secretary for Robert Kennedy, was not so fortunate. Trapped in the car, she drowned...