Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer to get good music," he talked friends into putting up $150,000, and selected the "rainless, mosquitoless and airplaneless" 76-acre San Juan ranch in the piñon-studded hills north of the city as the location for an amphitheater. Crosby and associates constructed a stage shell with an up-sloping flying roof and forward-sweeping wings designed to kill the echo off the rocky hills. To reflect the sound, engineers sank a pool between the orchestra pit and the 480-seat amphitheater, making one of the handsomest operatic settings in the Western Hemisphere...
...Yale and Cornell crews had crossed the Atlantic just to continue their bitter private rivalry. Each was out to prove its superiority once and for all. Last season Yale edged Cornell in the Olympic trials, went on to win a Gold Medal at Melbourne. This year the veteran Cornell shell had twice beaten the Olympic champs. Last week Cornell looked stronger than ever, sprinted the last 30 strokes to win by half a length. Shrugged Yale Coach Jim Rathschmidt: "I'm afraid we have to admit that Cornell is the faster crew...
...recently as 30 years ago, once powerful Brunei was a starving and disease-ridden nation of benighted tribesmen and headhunters, with a yearly income of only $80,000. At that time engineers from the British Malayan Petroleum Co., a Shell associate, were busy sinking exploratory shafts into what was to be the richest oilfield in the Commonwealth...
...Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions...
...date, combines made up of the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the French government and French oil companies have pumped $135 million into the Sahara...