Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company is also building in other coastal areas-Fort Pierce, Pompano Beach and Vero Beach-and it is planning homesites for land that it owns near Cape Canaveral. Altogether, bustling General Development expects to sell $75 million worth of Florida houses and land this year, v. $22.6 million last year. In this year's first quarter, the company reported earnings of 72? a share, v. 92? for all of 1957; it anticipates full-year earnings to hit $10 million, or around $4 for each of its 2,600,000 shares, and intends to put all profits into expansion...
Despite censorship by an overzealous P.I.O., word leaked out of some of hip-flipping Crooner Elvis Presley's activities at Fort Hood, Texas. He has advanced to acting assistant squad leader, donated new furniture to the company recreation hall, and according to a fellow trainee, "when he's free at night he goes to the telephone center and makes calls. On weekends the place is flooded with girls, and they drive him around the post...
...Greek, Daphni), stands behind a screen of cypresses, and its walls conceal a violent history. Seized and partially rebuilt in 1204 by Prankish barons, it was in turn captured and burned by Moslem Turks in 1460. The building was used in the 19th century as a powder magazine, fort, police station and sheep...
Twenty workmen on The Mullet last week were busily employed by the Irish Land Commission dividing a large estate into small farms when they discovered, to their horror, that the government surveyor intended that a fence should be driven straight through a rath, or fairy fort. They promptly downed picks and shovels and folded their arms. Their foreman sent for a government inspector, a citified cynic who believed the rath was nothing more than an ancient burial mound. He suggested that the fence wire be strung over the rath instead of cutting through...
Order in the House. In Fort Worth, Mrs. Forest C. Barber, suing for a divorce, charged that her physician husband set up a written system of household rules, imposing fines on her of $5 if she failed to awaken him in the morning, $2 for not having coffee ready on time (and $5 for complaining), $5 for failing to cook supper any day except Sunday, $2 for not cooking it well, $5 for complaining about having to cook, $5 for not having their child in bed and the TV set off by 9:30 p.m., $50 for tirades...