Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geoffrey Beaumont is a learned and dedicated man of the cloth. In the gloom of his musty church in London's Camberwell section, he conducts services for his working-class parishioners in language hallowed by generations of solemn Anglican usage. But when he sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known...
...plans had made no allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this...
...Mexico's Pemex oil and gas agency and Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to import some 200 million cu. ft. daily for Eastern customers. Texas Eastern will spend $83 million on a program which includes a 30-in. pipeline running 422 miles from Mexican border at McAllen, Texas, to Beaumont...
...Place to Visit. In Huntsville, Texas, released from the penitentiary four months before the end of a five-year forgery stretch, Clayton Nash went home to Beaumont, Texas, found his wife's nagging unbearable, hopped a freight to Dallas and demanded, as a parole violator, to be locked up for the rest of his term...
...major breakthrough toward equality of opportunity, Texas oil workers this year have succeeded in abolishing a discriminatory "dual promotion" system, under which Negroes were hired only as laborers and could not compete with white workers for operating jobs. At Beaumont's Magnolia Petroleum Co., the first company to scrap the old system, 32 Negroes have already stepped into operating jobs, while 13 whites have been hired as laborers...