Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture of confidence, a Manhattan lawyer named Bill Shea announced formation of a third major league: the Continental, which plans to start play in 1961, has already signed up New York, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea's biggest-problem: getting big-league players. But Congress is strongly pressing the majors to cooperate and Shea is asking for what he loosely terms "ready access" to their manpower pools...
SALTWATER CONVERSION plant will be built near Houston, Texas by Government to convert more than a million gallons of sea water daily into scarce fresh water for city and Dow Chemical Co. Plant will be finished by early 1961 at cost of $1.5 million, is first of five to be authorized (total cost: $10 million) in the search for economic methods of conversion...
With driving intensity and singleness of purpose, Surgeon DeBakey worked all day every day and half the night (since 1948 at Houston's Baylor University hospitals) on mechanical defects of blood vessels, especially the aorta. This great vessel, the body's main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials...
...STABILE Houston...
...CARRI Consul of the Dominican Republic Houston, Texas...