Word: sandspit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
...mobilized a fleet of ships that carried 3 billion ton-miles of freight-including 265,000 tons of pipe-from more than 5,000 U.S. suppliers. On a Persian Gulf sandspit, he built a port. Across the desert he threaded 930 miles of highway. He operated 1,500 cars and trucks, built airfields, ran Tapline's own private airline and radio communication system. To get water, Hull's men dug 40 producing wells which now supply water to 100,000 Bedouin tribesmen, 150,000 camels and 300,000 sheep and goats. At the pipeline's six lonely...