Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persian Gulf Strikes it Rich ON a lonely stretch of sandy, salt-encrusted coastline ranging from Oman to Iran, in lands so parched that clear drinking water is a luxury, the greatest treasure hunt of modern times goes on. Bordering the Persian Gulf, sometimes thousands of feet below the surface, lies the greatest pool of oil in the world. So far, 50 billion barrels of oil reserves, worth at least $100 billion, have been found-and this is only the beginning...
Defeat for the West Three months ago, in a daring parachute swoop, General de Lattre de Tassigny hurled the Communist Viet Minh out of the strategic, battle-scarred city of Hoa Binh, rice-and salt-rich capital of the pro-French Mung tribesmen. It was a major French victory, and the French proudly announced: "We shall never give up Hoa Binh." Hoa Binh was important because it straddles Route Coloniale No. 12, along which Chinese coolies had sneaked loads of ammunition from Red China to Communist guerrillas in southern Indo-China...
...refineries and factories, as well as 500,000 people. But its underground water is almost gone. The water table is some 50 to 60 ft. below sea level, and sea water is seeping rapidly into the gravel. Some wells two miles inland have already gone so salt that they are useless...
After years of study, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District finally decided to try an experiment. Last year its engineers pumped 100 million gallons of fresh water into the salted gravel under Manhattan Beach. Observation wells drilled alongside showed that the fresh water did not mix much with the salt, but forced it away, forming a mound of freshwater gravel. The sea water still seeped inland around the mound, like a stream flowing around a rock, but at that one point it was stopped...
...mountain water. Then the sea will no longer try to invade it. The industries and the people who depend on west basin water will never be able to use it at the old spendthrift rate, but at least they can be sure that their wells will not gush salt water...