Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offshore land is still undecided. Exploration by more conventional means - seismographic readings, examination of bottom samples - has indicated continuance of East Texas and Louisiana oilfields for distances as great as 50 miles offshore. By using a gravity meter in the diving chamber, Union Oil hopes to nose out salt domes. In the Gulf area these mounds of rock salt, which have a lower specific gravity than the surrounding sedimentary rocks, are often circled by rings of oil-bearing sand...
...Greenawisme. Chintz curtains were printed with Greenaway's interpretations of the seasons (a blizzard for January, flowers for June). Greenaway's grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public Library...
Both big Joe Curran and his disaffected shipmates would probably be reelected. The Communists weren't after the skipper's stripes; they just wanted to wring some of the salt from his socks. Curran would keep the crew if they would show a little more respect for the Old Man. But until the beefs were squared away, N.M.U. would be a loose ship...
Later Moore moved west, with his membership card, his lapel pin and the White House photo, protected by a cellophane case. Until last week he went over big wherever he went. Then Lion Moore passed a worthless check on a brother member in Salt Lake City, and the police, digging into the past, dug up a story. Items...
Boner. In Salt Lake City, Utah University Student Donald Williams' pup followed him to school one day, was found by aghast professors asleep outside the geology department, blissfully nuzzling a rare, well-gnawed, prehistoric bone from the university's much-prized collection...