Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history. The pengo was quoted at 500.000,000,000,000,000,000 to the dollar. At that point the Finance Ministry withdrew it from circulation, replaced it by something called the "index pengo," at 6,500,000 to the dollar. If the ordinary pengo had merely added a zero a day for another 80 days, it would have passed the googol...
...survived the blast might have had only a few days to live because of radiation disease. Best evidence: a goat on the bull's-eye Nevada, which looked healthy enough when the ship was first boarded, died within two days when its white-corpuscle count went down to zero...
Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
...last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
Better than Hollywood. Yellowknife is a storybook mining town on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 700 miles north of Edmonton, in the cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...