Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things, he was figuring on a basic change in the U.S. economy: "Shorter hours mean more fishing." Following the same line of thought, he leased Colorado's Royal Gorge Bridge, a tourist attraction complete with an amusement ride for children, bought a string of outdoor movie theaters, and a resort hotel in La Jolla, Calif. With Robert R. Young in 1951, he bought control of Seattle's American Mail Line, because government subsidies made...
...mind off his troubles, he moved to Dallas, started buying leases and drilling again in West Texas. When his first well in the Pecos Field brought in gas not oil, he arranged to pipe the gas into nearby towns, later expanded his gas lines into Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Arkansas. That was the start of his Southern Union...
Revolutionary guns last week broke the five-year rule of Paraguay's aging (71) President Federico Chaves. The little (pop. 1,500,000), landlocked republic is totally dominated by the government's Colorado party, and Chaves, as party boss, had been tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...
Other political decisions made last week: ¶Democratic Senator Ed Johnson, retiring from the Senate (TIME, April 12) but not from politics, allowed as how he is just the man to provide the "strong and experienced hand" that Colorado needs at its helm. Announcing his candidacy as governor, Johnson said: "I will not spare the horses." ¶ Louisiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank B. Ellis, leader of the successful pro-Stevenson forces in his state's savage 1952 campaign, entered the U.S. Senate primary race against Incumbent Allen Ellender. Making it clear that he would leave no vote...
...graduate of the Colorado School of Mines. Frondel received his M.A. from Columbia and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. Hurlbut is the author of 'Manual of Mineralogy" and "Minerals and Row to Study Them...