Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Vice President Richard Nixon put Texas on his campaign itinerary. All the signs of local politics indicated that Texas would be a Republican wasteland-and Republican campaigning for Texas' 24 electoral votes a waste of precious time. At first the old heads seemed right; Nixon spoke m Houston's Music Hall to a crowd that filled fewer than two-thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make a real Texas try. During the campaign he flew 800 miles across...
...Houston to Greece. Oilman O'Connor will be responsible for a worldwide $18 million expansion program at Dresser-everything from a new research center in Houston to a barite and bentonite (used in drilling muds) mining operation on the island of Mikomos, off the coast of Greece. The new products closest to the O'Connor heart are two oil turbodrills, which he recently succeeded in buying after eight months of on-again, off-again negotiations (TIME, Oct. 8) with the Russians and France's Etablissements Neyrpic. To be tested for the first time in Dallas this week...
...Northwest, last major region in the U.S. to be reached by pipeline, has been waiting six years to cook with gas. After a two-year search for reserves to supply the region, Houston Pipeline Builder Ray Fish battled the Federal Power Commission for two more years (TIME, June 28, 1954) to win permission for his $230 million Pacific Northwest line. Once started, Fish's Scenic Inch raced faster, farther, through more rugged terrain than any other U.S. pipeline...
...Penn coed is an intriguing paradox. She is attractive and often intelligent, yet some Penn men will assert that it would be degrading to date one. This can probably be regarded as irrational and inconse-5Snack bar-lunch counter at Houston Hall where busy Pennmen and women grab a bite to eat while scurrying about...
Mushrooming shopping centers have also spurred expansion of downtown stores. Shortly before the opening last month of Houston's $20 million Gulfgate, biggest shopping center in the South (anticipated first-year gross: $60 million), three floors of a four-story addition were completed at Foley Brothers, the only major Houston department store that has not opened a single suburban branch. Allied Stores Corp., which owns 32 department stores (Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., New York's Stern Bros.) in Eastern cities, is spending $250 million for expansion of shopping-center branches. Allied is also investing...