Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team, and like the submariner, Thach faces the bewildering phenomenon of the sea itself: its lack of homogeneity, its massive motion, its madness, its strange, deep rivers. One undercurrent, recently discovered in the Pacific, is 200 miles wide, 500 to 1,000 ft. deep, flows east along the equator, 100 ft. below the westerly-flowing surface...
...House, which approved a $10 billion permanent increase in the $275 billion permanent national debt limit, plus an additional temporary increase of $3 billion, changed its mind. It went along with a Senate bill pressed by Virginia's penny-counting Harry Byrd, setting the permanent increase at $8 billion and the temporary increase at $5 billion more until next June...
...Along Washington's coastline, from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Columbia River, "only the 43 miles between the Ozette River and the Hoh remain unshadowed by a road and still bordered by unspoiled forest land. Yet, in the entire country, this is the biggest such stretch we have left." The speaker: William O. Douglas, 59, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration...
...plentiful supply of milk, often drank more at one sitting than their families back home could afford in a whole week. Little League doctors found them in fine health. Not one had a cavity in his teeth. None of the youngsters could speak English, but they got along famously with U.S. boys...
...railroads last week with the first state subsidy in U.S. history. After two years of diligent consideration, the legislature voted $900,000 to enable the New Haven railroad (first half loss: $4,962,496) to keep its Old Colony line (1957 loss: $2,400,000) running from Boston south along the vacation resorts (see map) for another year...