Word: mex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
Jeweled Movement. In Portales, N. Mex., Millard F. Holcomb finally discovered the reason why his cow had been limping for the past six years: his wife's long-lost diamond ring was firmly lodged in its hoof...
Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...
These donations should be credited to a sizable segment of the whole U.S. press-for TIME'S story was merely the most recent of a long series of such articles. Regional newspapers like the Gallup (N. Mex.) Independent had long been recording facts about the Navajos-especially since 1933, when the Government crippled the Navajos' crude economy based on sheep-raising by ordering them-because of overgrazing and the resultant soil erosion-to begin doing away with their flocks...
...week's end, the Lipsetts agreed to a truce. While the New Mexico was kept clear of Newark's port, all parties met to discuss a negotiated peace. Unless some other berth can be found for the junking job, the New Mex will probably get into Newark, but with a shorter time-six to eight months-allowed to scrap her. And the Lipsetts will have to find another place to scrap the two other battleships, Wyoming and Idaho, which they have bought from the Navy...