Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borrows as much as $200 million a year from banks and insurance companies spread across the U.S.. is so highly regarded that the Bank of America once wanted to handle all MK's business.) It took years of saving before M-K got its first big steam shovel...
Taste for Growth. Finding uranium in fertilizer is just the kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...
...Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...
...koshava, a snow-bearing wind reported to be from Russia, had blocked the road, but the army broke out an infantry company to shovel it clear so that Tito could attend the annual dinner of the foreign correspondents who work in Belgrade. There, the 62-year-old dictator, rejecting native rakija in favor of three Martinis, swapped opinions convivially until an unprecedented 1:15 a.m. He talked of Milovan Djilas, the vice president he had stripped of all offices for being soft on democracy. He loved the man, said Tito, but politically Djilas is through for good. Mr. Djilas...
...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...