Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called to the White House in March 1944, the physician found that the cancer had metastasized-perhaps to the gastrointestinal tract; several sources confirm that Roosevelt experienced abdominal pains. Cancer could also account for F.D.R.'s accompanying loss of appetite and weight. Further, it would explain why Roosevelt gave his son James funeral instructions shortly after his last Inaugural...
...sparkling tract home in San Diego's east end, rented partly with story-rights money, the twins settle down at the kitchen table after school for a rapid-fire game of clipping magazine pages and scribbling. "Can-I-haf-pen?" Gracie asks a visitor. "Inna gonna write-on da walls," she hastily assures her parents, who are in the living room. The visitor asks if she remembers the old language. "Yes," Ginny replies quickly. "No, you don't!" interrupts Tom Kennedy from the front-room couch. "I don't know why you are lying about that!" Ginny...
...sale, currently scheduled for December 18, will open a tract off Cape Cod--one of the world's richest fishing grounds--to exploratory drilling. Groups protesting the sale said that the Department of Interior's decision underestimates the roughness of the area's waters and the value of its fisheries...
...Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract of shale land soon to be developed by Gulf Oil and Standard of Indiana...
...second, more radical method involves cooking the shale underground. Occidental, which has pioneered this process, plans to dig at least 2,000 chambers connected by tunnels under a 5,000-acre shale tract leased from the Government. The chambers, each about the size of a football field and 250 ft. to 300 ft. high, are created by drilling parallel tunnels leading from a vertical mineshaft into the rock at two different depths. The shale in between is then reduced to rubble by explosions in both the top and bottom. Each chamber is sealed, and pilot-light burners are lowered...