Word: shale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards are described in flashing language. But it is just here that Author Agee falters, clothing the action with symbols for which he furnishes no clear keys. As Richard and the others march...
...impounded reservation made a rich haul. Today it includes shale oil beds, vanadium and uranium deposits, 500,000 acres of coalfields, and a big chunk of the Wilson Creek and Rangely oilfields (Rangely's 1949 production: 20 million barrels). The Government promised to pay for all of the Utes' lands, but never got around...
...these hopes fade, said Dr. Wright, the U.S. can turn to enormous reserves of oil shale and phosphate rock that carry small percentages of uranium...