Word: gales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold. Its heavy, cold air flows down the sloping trough like water running down a flume. A little of it spills through gaps in the mountains, but most of it goes all the way to the coast, gaining enormous speed and spreading over the sea as a howling Antarctic gale...
...Gale B. ("Gus") Aydelott, 41, moved from executive vice president to president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, succeeding Wilson McCarthy, who died two weeks ago at the age of 71. A lifelong railroader, Aydelott signed on as a track laborer for the Rio Grande in 1936, shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in transportation. He moved up fast, learned his business as an assistant gang foreman, track inspector, engineering assistant and trainmaster. He changed to a white collar in 1943, was made vice president and general manager in 1954, executive vice president last...
...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Paris in the Springtime, with Dan Dailey, Gale Sherwood, Helen Gallagher...
...contrast between Altshul's heartiness and the effective combination of foolishness and sinisterness with which Paul Burkhardt played the part of "head jailer and assistant tormentor" Wilfred Shadbold. James Greene as Leonard Meryll and Al Hudson as Sir Richard Cholomondeley were adequate in supporting roles. Headsman James Gale was macabre...
Despite the general gloom over taxes, there were bright spots for some. University of Chicago Economist D. Gale Johnson discussed the case of the U.S. farmer: "Personal income tax does not apply to nonmoney income," and farmers have more nonmoney income, e.g., meat, eggs, vegetables, etc., than any other group...