Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American defense terms, the most sensitive area of ocean on the globe is the stretch of the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and the Scotch coast. Over this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines slipping out through the Norwegian Sea bound for attacks on Atlantic shipping or coastal cities. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy's around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers...
...Salvador could use some capital infusion. The Massachusetts-sized country on the Pacific Coast of Central America still derives 60% of its export income from big coffee plantations owned mostly by a handful of rich old families. The farm wage has not yet topped 60? a day for the illiterate Indian masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality...
...goes to work for a while on the New Yorker magazine; when it's a failure, he goes out to Hollywood. He says he regrets having spent so much time in Hollywood; he should have written more plays to increase his repertory rather than running out to the West Coast for six months at a time. In connection with his Hollywood experience, he recalls once being asked by producer Sol Wurtzel to do a screenplay for Dante's Inferno. "That requires a lot of research," Behrman replied. "Oh, no," said Wurtzel, "you can see the silent film." Behrman's most...
...Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized her as "everything I ever wanted," assured her that she would marry him some day, and departed for more training on the West Coast, leaving her with his signet ring, a gold locket and a white poinsettia. He served in the Navy as a storekeeper, was discharged after 18 months without ever getting overseas...
Price was called into the armed forces in 1943 and worked in the office of the Coast Guard Commandant, planning a system for the wartime performance of the service's regulatory duties. This experience led him to the Budget Bureau right after the war, where he assisted in the preparation of legislation setting up the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation...