Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site of the plant is a hamlet named Morón, 125 miles west of Caracas. Last week once-sleepy Morón crawled with the activity of 3,000 men. The first natural gas was arriving through a 24-in. pipe from eastern Venezuela. With $60 million spent, construction was well along on the cracking and fractioning units that will turn the hydrogen in gas and the nitrogen in air into ammonia, the basic component of fertilizer. The chlorine-caustic-soda plant was nearly finished, will start trial production this month. Aluminum-hatted straw bosses supervised the building...
...Laurent's major opponent was out campaigning too. Barnstorming the eastern seaboard, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker hammered at the Liberal government's "neglect" of the poor-brother Maritime Provinces, and looked like a strong campaigner. But Uncle Louis was in the enviable position of playing to an electorate that is by and large prosperous. Crowed he: "The astonishing fact is that in rate of growth of population, of productivity, of national income, Canada last year outstripped even the U.S. This country is really rolling...
RAIL-FARE HIKE will send up first-class tickets by 15% on six eastern lines. Together with recent 5% raise, this makes total 20% boost approved by ICC in 1957, brings per-mile first-class rates...
...chairman of the Financial and Operating Policy Committee. Osborne attended Harvard ('26) and Harvard Business School, taught in Harvard's history department before joining Boston's Old Colony Corp. in 1928. After a spell with Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., the Government during World War II and Eastern Air Lines, he became treasurer and later financial vice president of Mathieson Chemical. ¶Hans A. Vogelstein, 53, was named president of the American Metal Co., Ltd., U.S. refining and smelting concern with holdings in Canada, Mexico and Africa, annual sales of more than $600 million. He succeeds Walter Hochschild...
...Crimson golf squad did not place among top teams at the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament, held at Annapolis this weekend. Navy placed first with 608, followed by Penn State with 613, Yale with 620, and Cornell with 626. Army, to the relief of the Midshipmen, placed tenth with...