Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurricane Audrey, the season's first, was born as a Gulf of Mexico squall in a wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
...Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown) raised $143 million in 1947 to buy the Government's war-built 2,819-mile Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. Out of an original investment on their part of only $150,000 in stock, they parlayed the Texas-to-East Coast oil lines into one of the U.S.'s big four natural-gas carriers, a giant worth $581 million...
...Midwesterners, whose 500,000 bbl. a day petroleum consumption is rising 20% a year, the Chicago spur holds high promise of reversing the present pattern of costly refining in congested market areas. By becoming an independent common carrier, Texas Eastern can ship the lower-cost products of Gulf Coast refineries on a steadier basis than slow, crude-hauling Mississippi River barges, and at as much as 30? a barrel less...
...indeed a masterly work, executed in splotches of restrained browns and dull white that take shape only at a distance. Other exceptional works were George Grosz's "Night-mare," Mitchell Siporin's "The Gallery," and Max Weber's "Flute Player." William Kienbush received honorable mention for his competent "Coast of Baker Island." The sculpture choices, however, were poor on the whole; Isamu Noguchi's "The Ring" was by far the best item...
...Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today's "big band jazz." I must single out sax-player Jaki Byard, who wrote many of the fine illustrations. This...