Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee; 16.000 checked in at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park; 4,000 descended into the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; 8,350 arrived at Yosemite, and 20,000 at Yellowstone. By year's end, estimates the Interior Department's National Park Service, the visitor total will reach 55 million...
...Interior Decorators. The Southmoor Bank, Reporter Thiem disclosed, held a $24,000, low-interest (35%) mortgage on Hodge's $25,000 lakefront Springfield home. The News also reported that some $450,000 in checks from Hodge's office had been paid in two years to Fabric-Craft Sales Corp., a one-room Chicago interior decorating service headed by Mystery Man William Lydon, a policeman who was once indicted (and later acquitted) in the murder of a Chicago madam. Fabric-Craft and two other companies headed by Lydon listed two Hodge aides as officers: Chief Personnel Officer Lloyd Lane...
...such scaremongering, thousands of suggestible Germans have come down with "atomic headache." The head of the Bavarian State Health Authority complained: "All the misfortune that Bavarians formerly ascribed to the Fohn (a hot Alpine wind) has now turned into the atomic head ache." The Bavarian Minister of the Interior tried to convince complaining farmers that the yellowing of their pastures had nothing to do with atomic rain. In Salzburg cafe waiters warned departing guests not to go without hats for fear of atomic rain...
...Learned, by an action of the House Interior Committee, that the Democrats are hell-bent on using Hell's Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million...
Ordinary meteorites are believed to be bits of a "lost planet" that revolved in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. For some reason, it broke up and filled the solar system with large and small debris. Nickel-iron meteorites are thought to be fragments of its dense interior, while stony meteorites are made of lighter material from near the planet's surface...