Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small airstrip near Colorado Springs, a tall, slim stranger recently asked if any of the parked planes were for rent. "All these planes are for rent, mister," said the airport operator. "But you can't fly'em without a license. Let's see your credentials." Obligingly, the stranger took out his wallet and showed his pilot's license. His name: Charles...
...Lindbergh took off to look over a 15,000-acre site offered free to the U.S. Air Force for its long-planned West Point of the air. Last week Air Secretary Harold Talbott, guided by Lindbergh's survey, announced his choice for the new U.S. Air Academy: the Colorado Springs tract...
...decision followed a five-year battle that had narrowed down to two leading contenders. Winner was the Pacific Northwest Pipe Line Corp.. headed by Pipeline Builder Ray Fish, who plans to run a line 1,466 miles from the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico to Bellingham. Wash. Fish has had plenty of experience. His Fish Engineering Corp. built two of the world's longest pipelines: the Transcontinental, from Texas to New York, and the Texas Illinois, serving the Chicago area. He plans to finance the new $160 million line with common and preferred stocks...
...said FPC in its decision, was that the consumer's interests would not be protected if he were "wholly dependent upon an exclusive source of supply entirely beyond the control of agencies of the U.S." Another point: the U.S. pipeline would encourage development of large sedimentary basins in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, which probably contain...
...during World War II, returned to join the family company as a salesman in 1947. ¶ Donald E. Rust, 76, white-haired patriarch of the greeting-card business, was elected president and chief executive officer of United Printers and Publishers Inc., second largest U.S. greeting-card maker.-An ex-Colorado mining engineer, Rust quit his profession in 1906 to join his brother Fred in a Kansas City bookshop...