Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking Over. What Pemex took over upon expropriation was no booming industry. From its 1921 peak of 193 million bbl., production had sagged badly as salt water seeped into the major fields and fear of expropriation caused the curtailment of new exploration. In 1938 only 38.5 million bbl. came out of the ground. The jubilation that greeted President Lazaro Cardenas' expropriation decree was hardly borne out by the prospects. Technicians fled. Outraged foreign companies organized a boycott against exported Mexican oil, persuaded equipment suppliers to refuse sales to Pemex. Soon Mexico was buying oil abroad...
That was the turning point. Soon Steeves was catching fish, supplementing them with garden snakes ("They weren't bad"). He rigged a snare with his cocked revolver at a salt lick, finally bagged deer. In mid-June, certain that his health had returned, he made his first try at getting out by going down the torrential Idle fork of the Kings River, attempted to swim across. He tied his summer flights suit and boots around his neck and gripped his underwear in his teeth, but, out in midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost...
...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
Long before Ebola was due, Vullier kept all visitors away from the quarters of mother Irumu and father Dolo. He fed them both a special vitamin-rich diet of oat porridge with milk and salt, raw onions, carrots and watercress. Every morning a zoo attendant went to the Bois de Vincennes to pick fresh acacia leaves for the expectant okapis. Twice every day a keeper massaged Irumu's teats so that she would not fly into a rage when her infant first tried to suckle...
...Salt & Sage. Panama City should do even better than the forecasts. Last year some 30 million Americans went down to the sea in 5,971,000 powerboats and sailboats, spent $1.25 billion on their hobby; this year they will spend $1.5 billion, and add another 500,000 craft to the U.S. pleasure fleet. From Maine to California's Newport-Balboa harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands...