Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials say that there are few places left in the U.S. where toll roads would be financially practical. As if to illustrate the point, private investors in Texas (where the impossible is often considered likely) have all but abandoned a plan to build a toll road from Dallas to Houston. They have not been able to find buyers for their revenue bonds...
...award will be presented to Aub Friday by the University of Texas during the annual symposium on cancer research in Houston. Aub will deliver the Bertner lecture on the subject of "Cancer Research Is Growing Up" at the meeting...
...successful businessman (Louisville's Ballard & Ballard flour mills, now owned by Pillsbury), performed admirably in his three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, has since been valuable to the Eisenhower Administration as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of congressional liaison. But Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton also has a statewide political handicap in historically Democratic Kentucky. He is a Republican...
...Charlotte, N.C., and Houston, where druggists refuse to fill prescriptions for strangers, often have to limit regular customers to a dozen pills on account while they wait for an overdue shipment...
...improve its service, developed a hydraulic, shock-absorbing coupling gear that permits freight cars to be slammed together without damage. The Southern Pacific has saved itself $1,000,000 yearly by putting inventories under the control of an electronic brain. In a new $7,000,000 switchyard at Houston, it installed a radar-electronic computer control system that shunts a freight car to its proper track, computes weight, windage, distance, then brakes the car to a gentle coupling...