Word: spawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest and only brewery as a fitting prelude to Oregon's glorious 1959 centennial celebration. Just picture what reforestation will do for Times Square! Cool and green, teeming with game, salmon swimming up Pepsi Cola sign to spawn...
...reduced building Lime from eight years to five. Equally important, Kaiser's Volta plan would slash power costs-now 23 mills per kw-h in Ghana-to 2 or 2½ mills for aluminum processors, 6 or 7 mills for others. Such a price is reasonable enough to spawn a whole family of new industries in Ghana...
Prospects, Author Tracy's Mind Yott, I've Said Nothing! is a kind of Fielding's Guide to the national mentality that can spawn a Tommy O'Driscoll. The salient points to remember about Ireland, according to Author Tracy, are 1) that its public attitudes never have any bearing on its private ones: "It is the land of Double Think and Double Speak" where ''words are used as . . . a device for concealment": 2) that the main concern of every Irishman is saving face, and 3) that no Irishman is truly happy except when...
...year-old Radcliffe Graduate Rona Jaffe: heaven no longer protects the working girl, and the corner drugstore is not always successful either. Author Jaffe's working girls are all the sad young women who splash to Manhattan like tender young salmon, desperately eager to find a man and spawn, in wedlock but not necessarily in Westchester. In the meantime they take office jobs and go cummings' Cambridge ladies one worse by living two to a furnished soul...
...combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades and out to sea. Nothing has really succeeded. At dams higher...