Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will "as a token of my sincere appreciation" for the broadcasts. (One year a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners.) And a cowboy wrote that he liked to strap a radio to his saddle and gallop across the mesa to The Ride of the Valkyries...
...human has as yet tried the new seat, but Lockheed is so encouraged by fullscale, 1,000-m.p.h. trials at the Air Force's research track on Hurricane Mesa, Utah that the device will go into production before its test cycle is complete, probably by midyear. Lockheed's flying seat has many advantages over the capsule cockpit: it is light, simple, cheap and can fit many aircraft now in service...
...horses, and many of the same Navajo Indians who have been losing battles in John Ford pictures since 1938. By now, all of them perform with practiced ease: the women know just where to stand on the cabin porch as they peer off anxiously into the haze and mesa-filled distances; the men automatically fall into line for a barn dance or a posse. In fact, they may be getting too practiced and familiar. Even John Wayne seems to have done it once too often as he makes his standardized, end-of-film departure into the sunset...
...other nine are in Logan, Utah; Cardston, Alta., Canada; St. George, Utah; Manti, Utah; Mesa, Ariz.; Honolulu; Salt Lake City; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Bern, Switzerland. † Who told Founder Joseph Smith in Manchester, N.Y. Sept. 21, 1823 about the golden tablets that held the fundamental tenets of Mormonism...
...9/18/55-Time of landing 17:50. Ran out of gas. Was lost for 2.5 hours. Was looking for any place to land about 1.5 hours before I had to. Couldn't even find a farmhouse. I was on my way back to La Mesa. Needless to say, I didn't make it. The reason the plane hit the tree I don't know. The sun was in my eyes. It sat down alright then she turned and here I am-time...