Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bottom of the Bottle (20th Century-Fox) makes a fairly engrossing picture until it tries to tell moviegoers what it is all about. Joseph Gotten is a prosperous rancher-lawyer who lives in a CinemaScope valley deep in the heart of Arizona. One stormy evening, driving home from his weekly visit to a Mexican brothel, he gets his car across a flood-swollen river just before it becomes impassable. When he pulls into his garage he finds it already occupied by his brother, Van Johnson, who has broken out of prison back East and is trying to make it across...
Transamerica, which already owns banks in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, pushed into Idaho and Utah in a race against time. Most bankers expect sales of independent banks to out-of-state holding companies to be banned under legislation now pending in Congress. However, said Frank N. Belgrano Jr., Transamerica's 60-year-old president and chairman, Transamerica's recent purchases had been suggested by local banks that wanted to sell. This week Transamerica's traders moved on to Ogden, Utah, Marriner Eccles' home base, to discuss a deal with the Bank...
...week the Southern Pacific chuffed off into yet another sideline. Through its new $30 million, 800-mile Los Angeles-El Paso pipeline surged the first barrel of gasoline. When rfie flow hits a peak, Southern Pacific will deliver up to 20,000 bbls. daily to towns in New Mexico, Arizona and California's lush Imperial Valley...
Vera Black and most of the other 400 residents of Short Creek on the Utah-Arizona border are called Fundamentalists and believe that multiple marriage is the law of God. What they practice openly (TIME, Aug. 3, 1953) thousands of others throughout the West practice in secret. And this is not surprising, for it is little more than 65 years since aged Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, publicly declared that "my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) James A. Ryan, 88; in St. Petersburg, Fla. One of the Army's last Indian fighters, General Ryan spent three years in Arizona tracking Geronimo, was an intelligence officer in the Mexican border war under General Pershing, in a tour of duty as modern-language instructor at West Point had among his students Dwight Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley...