Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winter's last crushing blow began as a weak storm in the South. Laden with tropic moisture, it swung up the East Coast, began dumping wet snow, thousands of tons of it, across a 200-mile-wide belt, from Virginia all the way up to Maine...
...power in more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
...Worth It? About satellites that carry human beings Dr. DuBridge is dubious. "For most scientific explorations in space," he said, "the presence of man involves quite unwarranted complications and expense not justified by what he can contribute to the success of the venture . . . . Instruments are content to coast around in space unused and unattended for years, and to come back to earth, if at all, in a fiery cataclysm. But not a man. He wants to get back to earth not only unburnt but essentially unjarred. Now I assure you this is not easy, and we are a long...
While Los Angeles and San Francisco dailies are splashing news of the Dodgers and San Francisco's Giants, New York newspapers had not decided last week whether old loyalty to the westering prodigals will be strong enough to warrant staff coverage of West Coast games beyond the first weeks of the season...
CHRYSLER SHAKE-UP REPORTS, buzzing in Detroit because company's output this year is off 60% and heavy first-quarter loss is expected, picked up speed when two forward-looking vice presidents quit last week: No. 4 Man James Cope and West Coast Plant Boss Robert T. Keller, son of former President K. T. Keller. But President L. L. Colbert denies persistent reports that he will move up to chairman and that Veep William C. Newberg will become president...