Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
...years the U.S. has been trying to patch up Seoul's quarrels with Tokyo, so that the nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
...there is oil in the North, Minister Hamilton sees a vision of atomic-powered submarine tankers loading up from pipelines linking island interiors to the coast, then hauling their cargo under the ice to European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North...
Screwdriver and splicing knife hanging from his belt, the telephone man keeps history's happiest invention humming from coast to coast. He watches over 265 million miles of wire, waging war against storm, disaster and pesky animals that chew up or nest in his equipment. He hoists his lines over mountains with helicopters, shoots them across canyons with bow and arrow, strings them through dark conduits far beneath great cities. To every home and office, he gains ready entrance, exuding courtesy and helpfulness...
...Nevada, Mo. Louise Phillips, 17, and J. P. Ashley, 20, a coast guardsman stationed in Hawaii, were married in a transpacific telephone ceremony heard over a church loudspeaker by 125 wedding guests...