Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beach. In addition to these frontal attacks, Meyner has been wounded by a shot in the back from his own party. The key to a Democratic victory rests in Hudson County, where last election Meyner won almost half his 154,000-vote plurality over Republican Candidate Paul Troast. Now Hudson is racked by internecine warfare; "Victory Ticket" Democrats, who last spring wrested control of Jersey City away from Boss John V. Kenny, this election are trying to take the whole county. The conflict and confusion may rob Meyner of many of the votes he needs to roll up in Hudson...
...interrogated for 26 hours by secret police agents, apparently convinced that the Youth Festival outbursts could not have been spontaneous and must have been organized with embassy help. He was told that if he did not cooperate, "You will simply disappear and your clothes will be found upon the beach...
From the palmetto-dotted public beach that adjoins the launching sites, newsmen glimpsed test-firings of the 5,000-mile Navaho and the less complex Snark which superseded it, covered the first successful firing of the Air Force's Thor (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end the newsmen were standing by for the biggest bird of all, the second attempt to launch the 5,000-mile ICBM Atlas...
HUGE REAL-ESTATE DEAL will bring Boston syndicate into West Palm Beach, Fla. to put up $350 million new city with 10,000 housing units, two shopping centers, one of biggest industrial areas in South. Group includes Developer Martin Cerel, Lou Perini of Milwaukee Braves baseball club and Boston's Perini Corp. (heavy construction). They bought a 4,000-acre tract for $4,352,503, will start work within six months...
Aluminum Pleasure Dome. The first aluminum dome auditorium in the U.S. was erected by Kaiser Aluminum Co. at Virginia Beach, Va. for a municipally owned convention center to seat 2,200. Made of 575 diamond-shaped aluminum panels bolted and sealed together, the stressed-skin aluminum shell is 145 ft. in diameter, 49½ ft. high. The auditorium's cost...