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...cities like Aiken, S.C. and Augusta, Ga. set to counting the blessings that would flow when upwards of 25,000 employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving 100 large industries into the region...
...producers) Titusville's eleven refineries gradually dwindled to one. Last week the Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., which bought Titusville's last refinery from Cities Service Co. only a few months ago, had sorry news for oldtime roughnecks. It announced that its antiquated (built in the 1880s) refinery, which employs 70 people and has a capacity of 2,500 barrels a day, will be closed down and dismantled next month. Sighed one longtime Titus-villager: "A real sentimental loss...
Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered...
Mahogany Shaker. They spun old-fashioned spinning wheels, fondled tomahawks and dueling pistols, peered through a telescope (see cut) carried by Lewis & Clark on the exploration up the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. They even shook dice in a gleaming mahogany shaker from a palatial riverboat of the 1880s, the Grand Republic. As the children examined the trophies, two of Van Ravenswaay's museum staffers gave them a running account of the frontier history the objects represented...
...hours before leaving Tucson for a visit to Tombstone, Arizona's hell-roaring town of the early 1880s ... I read in TIME of April 3 that I was dead. ("Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon.") It was an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed...