Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water and land rights from the prosperous, unsuspecting Owens farmers. In Washington, the syndicate got the U.S. Forest Service to declare vast portions of the Owens Valley a forest district, thus further weakening the water rights of the farmers. Meanwhile, Chandler & Co. privately bought up 108,000 cheap acres in the desolate San Fernando Valley, just across the Santa Monica Mountains from burgeoning, thirsty Los Angeles...
...reason for the strict enforcement officials said, is the difficulty of establishing parietal rules in a dormitory system not designed for co-education...
Balanced Tire. U.S. Rubber Co. has developed what it calls the first passenger ire with a built-in permanent balance. The tubeless tire, called the "Safti-Flight," contains a wide, dense strip of rubber that runs completely around the nside rim and is buffed out in spots to balance the tire. List price: $67.15 for a 14-in. tire...
...Ejector. A hay-bale ejector that can be attached to standard balers was put on sale by Deere & Co. Operated by one man, the ejector takes each bale as it conies out of the press, heaves it eight feet into the air and into a wagon coupled behind the baler. Price...
Born. To Lowell Thomas Jr., 33, explorer, photographer, author (Out of This World, 1950), son of the radio commentator, and Mary Taylor Pryor Thomas, 29, his co-traveler: their first son, second child; in Manhattan. Name: David Lowell. Weight...