Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foundations-one in rock and one in sand...
...supply its 54-man drilling force, Humble shipped food and tools in barges and radar-guided Navy surplus craft from the mainland and the Grand Isle base. After three months of drilling, the Humble men struck oil-bearing sand at 7,000 ft., but plugged back the well when it proved inadequate for commercial exploitation. On the next attempt they struck pay oil at 8,665 ft. Humble is drilling another well, hopes to sink another before year's end. Total investment to date: $2 million...
...everybody connected with the deal promptly clammed up or looked studiously vague. Wanger, who first knew the shy Swede-when he produced Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked. She is a very loyal person...
...troweling away at the camp site of Pinto Man found eight months ago in the hot Mojave Desert (TIME, May 31). Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole. The wood of the post had disappeared thousands of years ago, but in its place was sand contrasting with the undisturbed earth around it. Other diggers downed their tools and hurried up excitedly; such filled-in postholes are treasures in archaeology...
Angry Wind. At the little frontier town of Oudjda, on the edge of the eastern Moroccan desert, anti-Jewish rumors had been sweeping through the bazaars as angrily as wind-whipped sand from the desert. Young Jews, whispered the Moslems, were slipping across the frontier at night to Israeli recruiting bureaus. Another rumor: a Jewish football club from Casablanca was collecting money in Oudjda for Israel's army. Jews spread counter-alarms about the Arabs, and tension rose...