Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handed to Frank McCulloch, who was about to take over as chief of TIME's Los Angeles bureau. It was a Los Angeles-sized assignment: report, in words and pictures, the phenomenal industrial and human growth that in less than a century had turned a patch of sand in Southern California into the greatest megalopolis...
...concessions on the public beaches, not five miles from the top-secret launching pads. Within the hour the beach crowds are 25% above normal. Binoculars, telescopes and cameras magically appear. "I know there's a missile on a launcher," says an eight-year-old boy, building sand castles, a pair of binoculars around his neck...
...forbidding Ahaggar mountains in the central Sahara, prospectors have found samples of gold, platinum, nickel, tin, chromium, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, copper, and one small diamond. But the area is separated from the nearest port by 1,400 miles of sand-swept desert trails. Admitted the French government's mining boss in Algeria, Turquet de Beauregard: "Even if we discovered a mountain of pure iron down there, it would not pay to ship it. So we have to look for very precious ores, such as platinum and uranium, which would be worth sending by plane...
...land that Nuri presides over, the classic land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, is the size of California. Long known as Mesopotamia, oil-rich Iraq is now shaking itself free from the sand that has drifted over it for centuries...
...when Nasser spoke of Israel, he seemed remarkably restrained. Possibly he was feeling his way toward some face-saving way of settling the problems of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Humphrey's final reassurance on behalf of the U.S.: "We don't want a grain of sand from your deserts, a stone from your pyramids, or a drop of water from your canal. We don't even want your gratitude. All we want is peace...