Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chling family is to the steel-rich Saar what the Fords are to Dearborn, Mich. Longtime producers of one-third of the Saar's steel, the Röchlings hold the key to the basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after...
...over Pacific Northwest Pipeline (TIME, Nov. 5), exchange 14 shares of a new common "B" stock for eight common shares of Pacific Northwest. If stockholders approve, deal will make El Paso largest natural-gas supplier in U.S., give it unlimited supply of dry gas from reserves in San Juan Basin on Colorado-New Mexico border plus Pacific Northwest's future dry-gas supplies from Westcoast Transmission's Peace River field in Canada. Combined assets of both companies: $1.1 billion...
...Mayor George Culmbach of Everett, Wash, linked their cities' kitchens to natural-gas wells on the Colorado-New Mexico border 1,488 miles away. For the Northwest cities that received natural gas for the first time this month, the 18-m.p.h. surge of fuel from the San Juan Basin was as momentous as the first whirring of dynamos at Grand Coulee Dam in 1941. Long hobbled by power shortages, the Northwest in another year will be tapping a gas supply equivalent to 15% of U.S. reserves, anticipates an industrial boom comparable to the South's postwar growth...
...check revealed that, though the metropolitan police patrol the area, the protection afforded may be inadequate. According to Captain Mallory of the Basin Division, the metropolitan police send a patrol car by the area once every 15 or 20 minutes...
...have virtually no footmen in the area," Captain Mallory agreed. "We patrol the section mainly by car." He claimed, however, that the section was well patrolled since it falls near the area of four separate police organizations: the Basin Division, the Cambridge police, the University police, and the Charles River Upper Division of the Metropolitan police, which covers the other side of the river...