Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army-rebel clash followed a new Oriente coast invasion by 150 supporters of ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás bent on horning into the revolution begun by Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro more than five months ago. Pursuing the invaders, the army caught them at the edge of the rugged Sierra del Cristal, killed 16. Castro chose that moment for a double show of force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding...
Death Valley Days. U.S. Borax is only a corporate infant-formed last year by the merger of oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made...
Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...
...shale beds throughout Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The problem is how to get out the oil on a paying basis. The U.S. Bureau of Mines worked on the problem in an experimental Colorado plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more money, the plant was shut down. Board Chairman Reese Taylor of Union, which has little production of cheap foreign oil and faces rising crude costs in California, decided to see what could be done with oil shale as a hedge against...
...benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus a few specialized cotton and tobacco districts, leaving relatively little for most Southeast, Middle Atlantic, Northeast and West Coast areas. Kansas soil-bank payments this year will average $736.47 per farm v. $24.96 for Virginia, only $1.37 for New Hampshire...