Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved into the Peace River area above Edmonton in search of gas and oil. When the provincial government lifted leasehold restrictions on Peace River lands in 1947, McMahon snapped up an original 300,000 acres and started prospecting. The first two holes were dry. Then in 1952 at Fort St. John, 345 miles from Edmonton, his Pacific Petroleums drillers brought in a promising gas well at shallow depth, followed it with dozens more, the biggest producing 137 million cu. ft. of gas daily...
BIGGEST ANTITRUST FINE levied against single defendant under present laws was slapped on Safeway Stores Inc., second largest U.S. grocery chain (after A. & P.). Federal District Court in Fort Worth fined Safeway and its executives $187,500 after company did not contest charges that 150 of its stores in Texas and New Mexico sold groceries below wholesale cost to run out competitors in 22-month price...
...Iron-ore deposits of 2.5 billion tons, found south and west of Morocco near Tindouf and Fort Gouraud, could produce 15 million tons of high-grade (53% to 65% iron-content) ore a year...
...paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet...
...Beaches. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., local boosters succeeded in a nationwide search for a living namesake by finding Mrs. Myrtle Beach of Fort Madison, Iowa, mother of three - Sandy, Marshy and Rocky...