Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona, Mrs. Ana (Anastasia Frohmiller, 59, popular, thrifty state auditor since 1926, the Democratic nomination for governor over five male aspirants. Her surprise victory made her a heavy favorite to beat Republican Howard Pyle in November;* Arizona has had only two Republican governors since it came into the Union...
...Bears," says Author Hibben, "are like people. They are all different and generally unpredictable." One chocolate-colored Arizona three-year-old showed such persistent friendliness that compassionate Hunter Hibben, who found himself alone in a canyon with his intended victim, hesitated to kill it. "We stood an eternity there, the bear and I ... The main atmosphere seemed to be one of embarrassment." Hearing the dog pack yelping at its trail, the bear calmly wrestled its way up a tree. "Should I shoot the bear? . . . Certainly this was no sporting thing. I would let Giles finish [him] off." Then suddenly...
...most of the 52 aboard American Airlines' DC-6 "Arizona," the big speedy plane was less a means of travel than of transition; a kind of big cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone...
Reproachful Looks. In thirsty Arizona, the most successful is Charles Barnes of Phoenix, a first-class flying man who, with 17 airplanes equipped or being equipped for rainmaking, had seven projects going full blast from Texas to California. Another big rainmaker is Irving Krick of Pasadena, Calif., who has projects in New Mexico, Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Best publicized of the lot is Harvard's Dr. Wallace Howell, hired last March by New York City (at $100 a day for a maximum of 15 days a month) when the great reservoirs in the Catskills and Westchester County were...
...Arizona Plain Talk, a weekly, shouldered into the barroom argument. Either someone on the paper was working with the drys, said the weekly, or "the paper has been duped by one of the most obvious and oldest frauds in journalism." Another weekly, the Arizona News (circ. 5,217), thought it was mighty peculiar that the Republic ran "hard liquor advertising ($200,000 worth a year) that drives my daddy to hard drinking...