Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, it was no surprise in the construction industry last week when the contract to build U.S. bases in Spain went to a combine that included Raymond. Other members of the winning team, picked from a 230-company list of bidders, were Manhattan's Walsh Construction Co. and Houston's Brown & Root, Inc. Plans call for air bases at or near Madrid, Seville, Zaragosa and El Copero, a naval base at Cadiz' port facilities and pipelines. Cost: $250 million...
This drive was the high point of the game--from a competitive standpoint. It was sparked by guard Stanley Weiss, who scored five of his eight points in the last six minutes of the half, and forward Jim Houston, who added three...
...horns of their 3-Dilemma, the other industries of fast-growing Southern California had become so diversified that Hollywood's slump was insignificant. The volume of building in the Los Angeles area alone (nearly $1 billion) was larger than the combined 1952 total of Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver, Baltimore and Boston...
...elderly Negro woman who was referred to Houston's M.D. Anderson Hos pital for Cancer Research posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living...
...more now, because Mrs. Wagner organized an all-out effort by the Negro community to set up a 25-bed convalescent home where Anderson Hospital's Negro outpatients can stay at little or no cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience of 4,000 and a big advance ticket sale, there...