Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidency of Liquid Carbonic Corp., largest domestic producer of carbonic gas and dry ice (1954 net sales: $51 million), succeeding William A. Brown, who resigned last month after control of the company passed to a stockholders' group. Texas-born, Nicholson has been successively a cattle dealer in Amarillo (1910-24), a construction superintendent in Tacoma, Wash. (1924-37), assistant administrator of the Federal Works Agency, Western Division (1937-44), since 1945 president of Pacific Tractor & Implement Co. of Richmond, Calif...
...would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, the Queen of The Netherlands, the descendants of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and to some 400 other non-Roman-Catholic heirs, including the wives of an interior decorator in Amarillo, Texas and a lawyer in Springfield...
...Yotre Sante. In Amarillo. Texas, determined to prevent her husband from having h's final Sunday bottle of beer, Mrs. Gertrude Camile drove her car through the saloon doorway, tore off 12 ft. of wall in a run that caused $1,000 damage to the bar. stepped out into the wreckage-strewn mess and clubbed him with a two-by-four...
Orange "G." As the rocket rose to almost 70 miles, the high-altitude winds distorted the sodium-vapor trail into a gigantic "G" 20 miles across. It remained visible for 15 minutes, until the shadow of the earth reached it, and was seen in Amarillo, Texas, 300 miles away...
Last week such tornado conditions prevailed in places across the U.S. from Amarillo, Texas, to Buffalo, N.Y. In three days, a record total of no tornadoes was reported in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Many were harmless, but one knocked a giant B-36 bomber out of the sky near Sterling, Texas, killing the 15-man crew. The worst killer slammed into Blackwell, Okla. and smashed across the Kansas line to Udall, 25 miles south of Wichita...