Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thayer (Ted) Watkins, 18. of Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...must be stopped, and the policies of conservation "which were in effect for years before the Eisenhower Administration" must be restored. Watersheds, public lands, national forests and parks, minerals and the soil must all be protected more rigorously against those who would exploit them. "This administration," said Adlai at Denver, "shows tender solicitude for the great private corporations but thoughtless disregard for the public's property, our public forests, our public lands, our national parks and our precious resources...
...Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, author of the direct-subsidy, surplus-building Brannan Plan, discovered that his popularity with parity-conscious wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
...Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell his Builders Emporium, a popular, Sears-like operation for do-it-yourselfers, so he could devote more time to community affairs. In Denver President Joseph Ross of Denver's Daniels & Fisher department store currently leads or serves on some 33 Denver civic projects. And, says a friend, "Joe doesn't just talk; he works, he drives, he produces...
Business Expense. In Denver, Laundress Velma Dunlap won a divorce after she told the judge that her husband gave her money only once during their marriage, when he forked over $4 so she could advertise for more washing and ironing to take...