Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...White-Slave Factory? Two years ago the State of Arizona began casting about for a means of stamping out the cultists, their town and their way of life. Last year the legislature appropriated a $50,000 emergency fund to be used in the project, and State Attorney General Ross F. Jones began planning a grandiose attack. Secret agents, some disguised as movie scouts, drifted into Short' Creek. Last month the great "Love-nest raid" began to shape up in all its wondrous detail...
...primary, cross-country, formation and night-flight training before he was washed out as being "unmilitary in character, too individualistic to fit into the Army." Shortly thereafter, Stockly's father, who was ill, took the family to Tucson. With no depression jobs available, Stockly entered the University of Arizona for postgraduate work in French and other romance languages, learned to read French almost as fluently as English...
...sweeping charges did not hold up. Said he: "The board paints with an exceedingly broad brush." FRB had shown that Transamerica had grown to gigantic size, dominating 41% of all banking offices, 39% of all bank deposits and 50% of all bank loans in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. "It may well be in the public interest," said Judge Maris, "to curb the growth of this banking colossus by appropriate legislative or administrative action." But, he ruled, FRB had failed to prove any lessening of competition or tendency to monopoly...
...Angeles power companies (Southern California Gas and Southern Counties Gas) will lay a 73-mile pipeline at a cost of $7,500,000. The California companies will split 300 million cu. ft. a day; the other 100 million cu. ft. will go to West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona...