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Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)

Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)

Date2/14/1970
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  • Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanker Arrow. Burning looks good on small patches but is no good in a wind; and smoke makes more pollution.
  • Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanker Arrow. Burning looks good on small patches but is no good in a wind; and smoke makes more pollution.
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Making a test burn of oil slick along the south shore of Nova Scotia's Chedabucto Bay, workmen watch black smoke billow up from the thick seepage of bunker oil from [Incomplete]
Making a test burn of oil slick along the south shore of Nova Scotia's Chedabucto Bay, workmen watch black smoke billow up from the thick seepage of bunker oil from [Incomplete]
Spremo, Boris
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Two oil drums from the tanker Arrow come to rest on a polluted beach near Artichat, N
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Spremo, Boris
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Warning signs are a regular summer feature of Toronto's polluted waterfront
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Workers attack the oil-fouled shore of Green Island last week
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First aid for oil-soaked ducks, Ducks in Lake Ontario off Long Branch Park are getting their feathers coated with oil from a spill in the lake and the(...)
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