Word: houston
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BIGGEST STEEL PLANT for South is planned by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. The $250 million plant near Houston will have capacity of 1,000,000 ingot tons. If J. & L. can get Government fast tax write-off for plant, project will probably start late this year...
...outspoken foe of deportation for White House squirrels (TIME, April 4, 1955), Oregon's animal-loving Democratic Senator Richard L Neuberger leaped to the defense of a herd of Texas goats. Outraged by a report that the goats are being plugged with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move...
JAMES C. PARISH JR. Editor Central America and Mexico Houston...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin...
...general the Clubs no longer want athletic speakers. Especially in cities such as Atlanta or Houston, where many of the Club members attended one of the Harvard graduate schools but not the College, movies of last year's Yale game just will not go over. But the Law School's Professor Sutherland, speaking on "The Banning of the Communist Party," will. According to Secretary Pratt, who co-ordinates all speaking schedules for the Alumni Association, "a coach may still be O.K. for a Christmas party, but for a dinner or evening meeting a Club wants an academic...