Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party-lining paid off. Chairman Calvin L. Rampton of the Utah delegation to Chicago announced that at least eight of the state's twelve votes would go to the New Yorker. Harriman's campaign managers hoped for as many as a score more in New Mexico, Arizona and Montana. These were Harriman's first noteworthy conquests outside New York...
...only flying saucers which Menzel's theory does not explain are the green fireballs that have been reported with extraordinary frequency in the Southwest. But Menzel does not take them very seriously. In clear-aired New Mexico and Arizona, he says, meteors are seen oftener than in cloudier places. According to Menzel's colleague, Meteor Expert Fred Whipple, they often look green because of vaporized magnesium from their stony material...
...been flying ever since he was 15, when he talked his father Egbert, sales manager of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), into paying for his lessons. By 16 he had got his private pilot's license, and by the time he graduated from the University of Arizona (he went there for his asthma), he had qualified as a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. He sold Piper Cubs, then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors and ferry pilots...
...ARIZONA-14. Convention gave Taft 10, Ike 2. Two uncommitted are likely to split 1 for Taft...
...charter is the first constitution to be enacted under U.S. federal auspices since Arizona and New Mexico joined the union 40 years ago. Puerto Ricans boast that it is the most up to date. After years of emotional turmoil over what governmental status they wanted, Puerto Ricans chose neither statehood nor independence. They decided to become a sort of associated free state or commonwealth. Sumner Welles once described the arrangement as "divorce with alimony...