Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain fell, morale went up in the critically dry areas. At the Fort Worth livestock market, cattle receipts fell off because farmers could see some feed ahead for their stock. With fewer cattle on the market, prices went up. In some sections of the South, the rain came at a bad time for cotton farmers, but hardly anyone was complaining. Said L. A. Walker, a Haskell County, Texas farmer: "Sure, it'll hurt quality of cotton somewhat, but it'll more than pay for this damage in the boost it'll give pastures, small grains and even...
...White Sands for TIME, to Wright Field, and to the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine near San Antonio, Texas. He first met Wernher von Braun. head of the former V-2 rocket project, for a TIME story in 1946 when Von Braun was brought to Fort Bliss, Texas as a civilian employee of the War Department. There was also new research which included hours spent browsing in Leonard's own extensive home library at Hastings-on-Hudson, more interviews with scientists, including members of both the American Rocket Society and British Interplanetary Society, and people...
...years since its cadets helped ring the curtain up on the Civil War by firing on the Union steamship Star of the West on her way to relieve Fort Sumter, the Military College of South Carolina (the Citadel) has had much to remember. It has turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod...
FLORIDA will get a mile of new luxury hotels and apartments as a result of one of the nation's biggest sales of undeveloped land. Real-estate men James S. Hunt and Stephen A. Calder paid $19.4 million for 2,466 acres along the coastline near Fort Lauderdale, plan to develop the site over a 20-year period...
First, because of a "direct connection" between the M.I.T. radiation laboratory, at which Furry worked during the war, and work done at the Signal Corps laboratories in Fort Monmouth, N.J. The committee has been conducting hearings during the past two weeks on what McCarthy has termed "extremely dangerous espionage" at the Ft. Monmouth research center...