Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polio Fighter Dr. William A. Spencer, 32, for establishing the first regional polio respiratory center in the U.S., at Houston...
...charges were delivered yesterday morning to school board president James Delmar. "If the Houston Museum of Natural Science finds Mather acceptable," Delmar said, "I don't see why I should get into this...
Despite protests from the Americanism Committee of the Harrison County American Legion, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, spoke last night in a Houston, Texas, junior high school auditorium...
...early last week, bounded back at week's end, and pushed the Dow-Jones industrial average up to another alltime high of 394.94, a solid 4.86 points above the week before. Among the leaders were Douglas Aircraft, up 5⅛ one day, and 9 the next, to 113; Houston Oil and Mid-Continent Petroleum each rose more than 7 points. The market was also given a big boost as steel production climbed to 82.1% of capacity, a 1954 peak. Bethlehem went up 9⅜ points for the week, to 104⅛; U.S. Steel rose...
...miles yearly), set out on a tour of U.S. gas capitals to persuade Fish and his associates to let Canada into the deal. Since pipeliners and oilmen continually drift around the North American continent in their private planes, the negotiations drifted, like some gigantic floating poker game, between Houston, Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Finally the oilmen came to terms, and last week the private planes converged on Tulsa (it happened to be the most central spot that day) to sign a $400 million contract, probably the biggest gas deal in history. The terms...