Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...
...another Mexican hamlet) 50 miles north of Mexico City, a sweating crew of some 30 workmen had laid down their shovels and picks to await the finish of Mexico's rainy season. Their patient digging, off & on for three years, had finally uncovered this important fact: The ruined pyramid, palaces, monuments and artifacts their spades had been turning up were those of ancient Tula. For two square miles, nine feet under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains of the Toltec capital. To complete its excavation would take at least another...
Mexican archeologists, working carefully with equipment that ranged from trucks to toothbrushes, had found no palaces of jade or emeralds. Already excavated: a great pyramid used for sacrificial rites, the magnificent, though ruined, temple of Quetzalcoatl; a double T-shaped "basketball" court used in ancient ceremonial ball games; two eight-ton monolithic statues, among the largest ever found in Mexico. As yet unexcavated, but measured and probed, were several large palaces, some containing as many as 30 rooms...
...famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos ($621). By the time Archeologist Acosta had disinterred his pyramid, the Mexican government had upped its grant by another 11,000 pesos...
Passenger revenues, which make up only 10% of total rail income, do not pyramid the costs of other products as freight charges do. But if & when ICC grants higher freight rates (the roads are asking increases to yield additional revenue of some $300,000,000), ICC will rank with the farm bloc as assassins of price control...