Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-memoried Reader Anderson is thinking of Doris ("Dorie") Miller, messman aboard the battleship Arizona, who on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 dashed to the bridge, helped carry his mortally wounded captain to a place of greater safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...
...spring of 1950 Jack K. Daiton, who had served four years with the Army Engineer Corps in Europe and the Pacific, was digging up research for his Master of Arts thesis at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He picked art education as his subject and looked hard for ways to get contemporary material. He hit on one way when he read the TIME cover story on Pablo Picasso and other School of Paris artists (June 26, 1950). Why not, he wondered, ask the leading painters of that group to suggest ideas and sources? He wrote to TIME to explain...
...full-circle swing. In Revolutionary days, the inns dotted the highway as way stations for stagecoach travelers. When railroads were built, the inns moved into the cities. When the U.S. took to the road in automobiles, "tourist homes" and motels opened up in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and other vacation states, gradually spread to all the other states...
...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...
...tobacco or aluminum cases disclosed the existence of greater power in one organization directly to affect the economic life of so great a geographical area ... as does the record in this case." As evidence of that power, Evans cited figures: in the five-state area of California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Washington, Transamerica controls 47 banks, with 667 banking offices which have about 41% of all banking space, 30% of all deposits, 50% of all bank loans. To break up this concentration, Evans recommended that FRB order Transamerica to sell all of its stock in the 47 banks, retaining only...