Word: shale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants, electric & gas plants, hotels, public works, schools and hospitals. Mr. Matsuoka's role was something like Japan's Clive of India...
...result of patiently spread German propaganda to the effect that Iceland and Germany were brother States. Three years ago Poet Auden reported seeing Herman Goring's brother in Reykjavik and hearing that Nazi Mystagogue Alfred Rosenberg was soon to come. British found large areas where the shale had been scraped away apparently for landing fields. The occupation of Iceland, uncongenial though it might be, seemed worth the price as a preventive...
...Indiantown Gap. Pa. a camp for 20.000 men was pitched on rock and shale, where well-digging was slow and inordinately expensive. Result: a month's delay. In New England, where an abundance of lumber could be salvaged from hurricane-felled trees, camp constructions waited for lumber from the Pacific Coast (where lumbermen last week settled a ten-week strike, averting further delays). Contractors working for cost-plus-fixed-fees could afford to snatch labor from nearby rivals who had lump-sum contracts, thus delaying construction at other camps and highlighting the lack of a planned labor supply...
...Shale and sandstone strata bearing dinosaur tracks have been known in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley region for a long time. The South Hadley bed was found in 1933 by blond, blue-eyed Carlton Nash, who had been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their...