Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant" $7,000,000 (of the total $19.5 million in contracts) for drilling useless holes to fill abandoned coal mines with sand and gravel along the turnpike's right of way. Prosperous little Manu-Mine's big profit: over...
...days when Britain wanted to protect its passage to India, rests on protective arrangements made long ago to safeguard minor sovereigns and sheiks around the gulf from wild tribal attacks out of the hinterland. The discovery of oil-or the hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like...
David Ambo had not been looking for gold at all but for a cooling drink to wash down his dinner. In the creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about...
Aaron started to learn his trade as a kid on the sand lots of Mobile, Ala. After high school he joined the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns, an all-Negro team. "One time in 1952 we made a 900-mile hop," he recalls. "We left Chattanooga right after a night game, rode all night, the next day and part of the next too. Then we played that night in Buffalo. I got ten hits in eleven trips...
Today-only 71 years later-Los Angeles groans in the echo of that cry. A once meager patch of sand in Southern California, its rubber-band boundaries stretch past a natural basin rimmed by mountains, flow over the hilltops and peaks into the valleys and deserts beyond, nudge the very Pacific beaches...