Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen of The Netherlands came in a Dakota piloted by her husband. Fashionable Claridge's was so jammed with visiting royalty, ex-royalty and foreign representatives that the management was forced to send out for three extra flagpoles on which to fly their standards...
...Elizabeth took a last walk around the grounds with Philip, then climbed into a car for the drive to Nanyuki Airport. A Dakota flew the royal couple to Uganda, where the same four-engined Argonaut that brought them from London was waiting to carry them home again. A few minutes after the first takeoff, the plane's pilot picked up a radio message of condolence from Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then, at last, Britain's Queen broke down in sobs...
...than any other U.S. company. As a result, Socony's proved domestic reserves have climbed from 1,121,000,000 bbls. in 1946 to 1,641,000,000. It has tapped an immense pool in its Pegasus Field in Texas, is one of the biggest explorers in North Dakota's promising Williston Basin, and has 6,800,000 acres on lease in Canada. It is already producing at its Duhamel field in Alberta, and a month ago brought in the new Roseray well in southern Saskatchewan...
...minor defeat for the U.S., which is anxious to include the other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting position of the Soviet bloc. On any issue requiring two-thirds majority, every vote counts...
...dean of the University of South Dakota's medical school.* Dr. Donald Slaughter experimented with pain-killing drugs, tried several on himself. Last week, Dr. Slaughter committed himself to a federal hospital as a narcotics addict...