Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mines, Inc. and land grants that it received in 1954 in the Rogue River National Forest. Neuberger had long wanted such an investigation, charging that the Al Sarena claims were worthless as mining property, and that the grants were made only because Al Sarena's owners wanted to strip the claims of valuable timber. This, Neuberger insisted, was part of a deep Republican giveaway plot. Cried he: "If this Al Sarena case were allowed to stand as a precedent, it would mean the end of our national forests...
...foundation-to-finish schedule, moved in ten new families daily. Working three shifts, seven days a week, some 2,500 construction workers fitted together a $43 million ore-crushing mill and smelter. Across the rugged hills more workers laid out a 4,200-ft. landing strip, a new highway, a 30-mile, $7,500,000 railroad to the Southern Pacific's spur at Hayden. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, the first trickle of molten copper came out of the huge San Manuel smelter...
...Algeria itself, the month's casualties were the highest yet. Premier Faure promised Governor Soustelle a 60,000-troop reinforcement. Rebels now had control of thousands of square miles, including a 50-mile strip of coastline. Out of fear of the rebels, or in support of them, the Moslem municipal councilors in the cities of Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Philippeville and Bone resigned, setting off a mass flight from office among 5,000 Moslem officials in Algeria...
...public dignitaries to shrines were forbidden, schoolchildren's pilgrimages were stopped. Shrine attendance dropped 50% to 70%; the gods, in failing to protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
Died. Ham (Hammond Edward) Fisher, 54, creator of the comic strip Joe Palooka; by his own hand, in Manhattan...