Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a band of Algonquin Indians looked up and saw the square-rigger Mayflower bobbing off the shores of Massachusetts. To their minds this, understandably, was an unexpected sight. Last week, as a reasonable facsimile of the ship sailed-or, more exactly, was towed (against the tide by a Coast Guard cutter)-into sight of thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical. Yet, as Mayflower II picked up her mooring, even the cynics forgot their...
...research ships, Britain's Discovery II and the Atlantis from Woods Hole, selected stations off the South Carolina coast where the Gulf Stream runs rapidly northward. The scientists on the Atlantis began sampling water from the surface to the bottom. This gave the differences of temperature, salinity, oxygen content, etc., that theoreticians think are associated with deep-down currents...
Golfers & Speculators. On the green acres of four nearby courses, golfers yearned to mix business with pleasure. In no time, the price of memberships shot up so high that some are now more expensive than seats on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. The price at the Los Angeles Country Club rose from $3,000 (in 1953) to $10,000, and members who paid a cut-rate $150 in mid-Depression were happy over the best investment they ever made...
...does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college, for the Ivy Leaguer or the city college commuter...
...Broke. Poor financing did what the elements could not, and by 1888 Coleman was bankrupt. Borax Smith took over Coleman's mining properties, consolidated all his mines into the Pacific Coast Borax Co. and, to boost European sales, merged with a British chemical company headed by James Gerstley, father of present U.S. Borax President Gerstley. But Smith also overextended himself, also went broke. To pay creditors, he was forced to sell out his stock to Gerstley and other Britons with holdings in the new company, which eventually became known as Borax (Holdings) Ltd. Domination of U.S. borax mining passed...