Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most revealing of these signs appeared in West Germany, which in the last ten years has transformed itself from a vast rubble heap to one of the world's top industrial powers. Though relatively abundant resources and an industrious population played a great part in this transformation, much of its direction was the work of West Germany's cigar-chomping Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard, who by kicks, tricks and cajolery has kept his nation on the straight and narrow path of Marktwirtschaft-free enterprise economy...
...Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles. Communications were cut; the area's network of irrigation canals...
...estimates: 2,000 and up) of his friends. Mike's angle: none, except that, he conceded, a word or two about the London première of his zany travelogue Around the World in 80 Days might "sneak into the newspapers.'' At London's vast, varicolored Battersea Pleasure Gardens, Todd's flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great man growled), while Aly Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into...
...coast awoke to what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
Battle of the Giants. McMahon's stakes are likely to look like small potatoes compared to the fortunes the giants of the industry are preparing to bet on the entire vast area from Great Slave southward to Edmonton. Virtually all major companies, plus a host of independents, are deep in the search, have formed dozens of combines to help one another. Because Canada's provincial governments hold up to 90% of all mineral rights and in the West usually lease them in 100,000-acre blocks (price to Imperial recently: $1,700,000), even the biggest outfit often...