Word: colorados
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...Colorado highlands in the early 19005, the musical is a reminiscent farce, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods. It actually owes most to Friml's Rose Marie, whose Royal Canadian Mounties are now red-jacketed U.S. Forest Rangers. Little Mary enters carrying flowers in one hand, a watering can in the other, and stainless steel morals in her breast. She loves the No. i Forest Ranger, a strapping fellow, tall as a sequoia and equally intelligent. Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences; the skillfully imitative melodies by Rick Besoyan (who also wrote...
Burpee's current ambition is to have the marigold named the nation's floral emblem. He scorns the corn tassel promoted by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas ("not a perfect flower"), the carnation backed by Colorado's Senator Gordon Allott ("Just try to grow them"), and the rose supported by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott. Sniffs Burpee: "It is the emblem of England and eight other countries, four of which have fallen behind the Iron Curtain since selecting the rose as their emblem." He has even registered in Washington as a lobbyist to promote the marigold...
Died. Frank Hefferly, 82, oldtime Socialist picked in 1935 by John L. Lewis to be president of the Colorado and New Mexico district of the United Mine Work ers of America, which has not had a district-wide election since 1922, and has seen its membership drop from a high of 40,000 to a current estimated 2,000 even while continuing to pay annual salaries of $25,000 to Hefferly and of $18,000 to his son. District Secretary-Treasurer Fred Hefferly; in Denver...
...Colorado Springs, Colo...
Rebate Reduction. The committee also dug into the FPC's policy on setting temporary rates. An FPC examiner found that a temporary rate increase by the Colorado Interstate Gas Co. was later reduced. The company owed its customers a refund of $50 million, but paid only $38.6 million in a settlement negotiated by the FPC. Kuykendall admitted that W. E. Mueller, president of Colorado Interstate Gas Co., had visited him, and said that a large refund would be financially disastrous to the company. But, said Kuykendall, "if Mr. Mueller had tried to argue the merits of the case...