Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot walls. A typical one, Punto Salinas, 73 miles north of Lima, has 70 acres of birds. Mostly black-and-white guanays (cormorants), they stand wing to wing like a rippling blanket. Though the colony was established only this year, it already numbers some 2,500,000 birds. Other shore colonies are growing as fast, and some of them allow the birds to exploit parts of the fish-rich sea they could not reach before...
...cotton prices, which suffered one of their deepest postwar price slumps (as much as $10 a bale) in the futures market a fortnight ago, took another blow last week. The cause: an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that, despite a 14% acreage cut ordered this year to shore up prices, the 1955 cotton crop will be 2% bigger than 1954's 13,696,000 bales. Good weather, increased use of fertilizer and close planting had boosted productivity; the average acre, by the department's estimate, would yield a "fantastic" 405 lbs. v. 341 last year...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
Ione hit North Carolina about as predicted. She chewed up enough shore cottages and boardwalks to provide news photographers with acceptable pictures...
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...