Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprise system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a semblance of style, or give a broken appliance the "provisional" treatment, as the Russians call their intuitive knack for makeshift repairs...
...Westinghouse Electric Corp. went a $4,000,000 contract for a saltwater conversion plant capable of producing 1,000,000 gal. of fresh water per day; a new catchment basin to collect rain water will also be built, along with an underground reservoir holding 4,000,000 gal. in reserve. By August "Gitmo" will be self-sufficient, no longer concerned about the Cuban waterworks that Castro shut off in reprisal for the seizure of four Cuban fishing boats violating Florida waters...
...being rapidly reduced by the drilling of too many wells in one small area, a practice that diminishes the subterranean gas pressure needed to force out the oil. But just in case the Morrow County field should turn out to be only the first tapping of a vast underground ocean of oil, more than 100 lease dealers are now quietly collecting contracts for drilling rights from Lake Erie to the Ohio River...
...firm is prime contractor for the $82.9 million Rayburn House Office Building. McCloskey also worked on the new $24 million east-front face on the U.S. Capitol and on the $4 million Senate underground monorail system, and he is sole contractor for the huge $12.6 million "Federal Office Building...
...town overseer-until they discovered that he had put municipal employees to work forging false identity cards for escaped prisoners of war. He was convicted on charges of aiding the Resistance, spent 57 days in a death cell. When he kept up his work with the underground after his release, the Germans sent French collaborators to kill him; Kir survived only because a bullet aimed at his heart hit a thick notebook in his chest pocket...