Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...
UNION OIL CO. of California, which has 14% of the West Coast oil and refined-products market (1954 sales: $349,700,000), will build a $20 million business center in downtown Los Angeles with 1,000,000 sq. ft. of office space and an underground garage for 1,500 cars...
...dangerous underground game of Cold War espionage, the Communists have a built-in advantage: an estimated 10 million party members in over 60 different countries, all of them potential agents. The West has many more potential friends -the oppressed inside the Communist empire-but since most of them are inaccessible or terrorized by the police, Western strategists rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus...
...report. There had been an attempt, said the official Communist radio, to overthrow the government. The plotters were a group of "religious sects" operating among the Buddhist farmers of Hopei Province (who have always chafed under the Communists' anti-religious policies). The government had found, near Peking, 27 underground "code rooms" and "hideaways," one of them big enough for more than 30 people. The rebels had intended to re-establish a monarchy...
...small part of this flood. Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation. Of the total precipitation, Texans are left with little-about 3% for pasture grass, timber, crops, etc.. another 3% that seeps to underground reservoirs...