Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chemical industry was changing other landscapes, too. Outside Cleveland, a 30-mile stretch of Lake Erie shoreline was dubbed "Chemical Shore." Along it lay $235 million worth of chemical plants, and $40 million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau...
...route of the Wise Men is today a deadly pilgrimage that winds through mine-strewn roads and olive groves. So on the morning before Christmas Eve, Jordan and Israeli soldiers, forgetting their hostility, carefully remove their own mines, and fill in their tank traps. Then together the hostile soldiers stretch hundreds of yards of white tape along the narrow, unlit road to guide the Christians. At dark, as the lights of the procession approach, waiting Israel and Jordanian armored cars turn on their searchlights and shout an official "Merry Christmas" to the caravan of dignitaries. From the groves of olive...
...Communist Robert G. Thompson, who hid out in the California mountains for two years, dodging a three-year sentence for conspiracy, got a stiff penalty for playing hooky. A U.S. district court judge found him guilty of contempt, tacked another four years onto his stretch...
...voluntary move was made, with Justice's blessing, so that she might avoid deportation on charges that she illegally entered the U.S. from Canada. With her went Michel, 12, and Elise, 9, her children by Dr. Raymond Boyer, former McGill University chemistry professor who did a two-year stretch for passing Canadian secrets to Soviet spies during World...
...effort to prepare, industry has gone through a bewildering series of speedups and stretch-outs, conversions and reconversions, mobilizations and demobilizations, shortfalls and slippages. When the Republicans came to power and started to take a new look at defense, confusion was compounded by the fear that they were about to change everything that had gone before, and substitute a narrower base of mobilization for the Democrats' broad base approach. Since then, however, it has become clear that the Republicans, like the Democrats, want the underlying mobilization base for a possible M-day to be broad and, where possible...