Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3½ hours a laconic voice announced over the loudspeaker: "As you may know, the ship has gone aground." Two tugs and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter came, tugged futilely and quit. Reporters swarmed out in small boats, were driven off by ship's officers who brandished a fire hose...
...week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
Oilmen from coast to coast awoke to what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
...Scott Paper Co. In significant first victory, FTC got world's biggest papermaker, International Paper Co., to sign consent decree agreeing not to acquire interest in any competitor for next decade. International also promised to sell its 12% stock holdings in Longview Fiber Co., a top West Coast papermaker...
...When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward made some refreshing changes in the East Coast yachting classic: more boats than ever before (48) beat down Chesapeake Bay from the starting line; they swung north toward -Newport, and 32 of them broke the elapsed-time record for the 468-mile course. Winner on corrected time: the 41-ft. sloop Harrier, owned by Jay Bontecou...