Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Generous. Domestic-oil exploration has changed drastically since the 1956 Suez crisis touched off an any-thing-goes search for more Stateside oil. Renewed imports, tightened state restrictions to guard reserves, and marginal returns from shallow drilling are forcing today's oilmen to drill deeper and to move into states where allowables-the monthly production quotas imposed by the state-are more generous. Louisiana is not only among the most liberal in quotas, but has the best deep-drill prospects. Though Texas still leads all oil-producing states (35.5% of U.S. production), its oil output has declined steadily...
Puddle of Lava. The "Needle Reactor," as Adams calls it, will be placed in a shallow shaft before its nuclear reactor is allowed to go critical. Quickly the temperature will rise to about 1,100° C. (2,012° F.), which is hot enough to melt most rock. Because of the insulation around the midsection, most of the heat will flow downward; soon the lower point will be surrounded by a puddle of lava. The needle reactor will gradually drop into this plastic stuff, and the lava will close over it and solidify...
Into the Geography. In Honolulu, another example of Warnecke's ability to blend modern technique into a unique geographical setting will soon go into construction. The $14 million Hawaiian state capitol will rise on 24 banyanlike columns that will soar 60 ft. above a shallow reflecting pool-symbolic of Hawaii's oceanic isolation, but not in conflict with the Italian-Renaissance-style lolani Palace near...
...made a note in her book, extended her hand, and bounced from the porch, her face reflecting a controlled, anticipated satisfaction. A car full of whites passed. Necks crained. The driver turned around just in time to watch his car clatter noisily in and out of a shallow ditch...
Career Pap. Bert Flax is a sunny, shallow, sincere young man who begins his writing career as a precocious student in a Bronx parochial school, submitting smug little essays to the Catholic press-most notably the Tiny Messenger and Catholic Woman. His subjects run to problems like dirty movies and where the angels go in the wintertime; his most masterly creation is Father Danny, "a lean, clear-eyed man, with a spring in his step and a great fund of natural humility." Bert is so good at this kind of pap, in fact, that he decides to make a career...