Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base of Ecuador's boom is a ten-year record of political stability, starting with Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador...
...Among them: Dominion Explorers Ltd., Round Valley Oil Co. Ltd., W. R. Newman (Joseph H. Hirshhorn interests), Texaco Exploration Co., California Standard Co., Talent Oil Co., David Rosen (Sun Oil Co.), Sky Chief Explorations, George Radisics, Charter...
Upon return to America, the family settled in Oakland, California, where the children became thoroughly westernized. Gertrude approved of California because she got "all anybody could want of joyous sweating, of rain and wind, of hunting, of cows and horses and dogs, of chopping wood, of making hay, of dreaming, of lying in a hollow all warm with the sun shining while the wind was howling, of knowing all poor kinds of queer people...
...what Leo called "a romance that began when we were toddlers." Because they had been so close, Gertrude felt lost when he went off to Harvard, off to a man's world. Perhaps if Daniel Stein had not died when Gertrude was seventeen, she would have stayed in California. As it was, she wrote, "Life without a father began a very pleasant one." After settling the estate, Bertha, Leo, and Gertrude moved permanently to Baltimore, where they lived with relatives, the Bachrachs. Life in Baltimore agreed with Gertrude. Later she wrote that she became "more humanized and less adolescent...
...Trap (Paramount) is something a prudent moviegoer will not want to get caught in. It tells the unlikely story of an underworld overlord (Lee J. Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start...