Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Costing at least $150 million, the 2,200-man plant will rise on 750 acres of sand dunes along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore, will wedge National into the big-league Chicago market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...
...rescue team's chief, Rupert Fothergill, 46, is mostly concerned with keeping his men alive. Fothergill himself has been bitten by a python and a rufus-beaked snake; one of his staff, while swimming, was bitten on the lip by a hissing sand snake. More than the animals and reptiles, Fothergill fears the dangers of diving into the lake where there is always the possibility of losing an eye on a tree branch or being impaled on a stake. Lions and elephants will be relatively easy to handle. Says Fothergill: "An elephant can swim a long way. It will...
...Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining the drinking water for their cattle. Henderson lobs a homemade bomb into the cistern, but Quixote-fashion, blows up the retaining wall as well as the frogs, and the precious water seeps into the sand...
...Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which...
Richfield's big atomic bet is based on a chemical peculiarity: the molecular structure of Athabaska oil is such that, once thinned by heat, it flows indefinitely, whereas many heavy crudes thicken again in cooling. The spot picked by Richfield for its experiment has rich tar sand down to a depth of 1,000 ft. Then the underlying rock begins. If the A-bomb experiment works, the first small-scale (two-kiloton) detonation will be set off in the rock strata 1,200 ft. below the ground. Engineers expect that the bomb will create a huge cavity, and heat...