Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generation of Murderers." Occasionally, the Soviet anti-American campaign slips to patent idiocy. A 65-page pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation...
...country. The best are the brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north of Boston in Wakefield, Mass. Most spectacular feature: a 19th century New England fishing...
Other officers elected were: John L. J. Hart '26, Denver, Vice-President at Large; Henry P. Day '41, St. Louis, Secretary; Albert Pratt '33, Chestnut Hill, Treasurer...
...tearful Bobby and quietly allowed that his only real puzzler had been intitule in an early round. Joel came equipped to win. The son of a lumber salesman, he reads four or five books a week, is starting Darwin's Origin of Species. And his spelling coach at Denver's Byers Junior High School is Teacher Ted Glim, producer of a co-champion two years ago, who shuns rote memorization. Glim starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly into roots, prefixes and suffixes. We learn the story behind words, their meaning and use today...
...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...