Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been eleven weeks since the great tornado ripped through the suburbs of Flint, Mich., killing 113, injuring 547, and destroying $12 million worth of property (TIME, June 22). The residents of Beecher Township, hardest hit by the storm, had been struggling to rebuild their homes. But only foundations and a few frames stood among the ugly scars of destruction. Then, in less than 48 hours last weekend, Beecher Township rose from the ruins...
Died. Mary Stollard-Purnell, 91, widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the bewhiskered, ball-playing House of David, whose followers claimed to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel;† near Shiloh, the religious cult's realm, in Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms...
...Lawrence Rix of Dowagiac, Mich, had only done what many prisoners do: he stole food. Somebody squealed, and he was stripped almost naked and forced to stay in a cold hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape with a buddy. The guards picked them up. Allen signed a confession, but his fellow escapee decided to hold out for a while. The Chinese put him in a damp cellar. Said Allen: "A few days later they carried him out of the camp. He was dead, and he had blood...
...General Motors' modern, air-conditioned brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
...Electronic Drill. A new die sinking and drilling machine, which uses one of the softest metals (copper) as the cutting tool for some of the hardest (tungsten and titanium carbide), is being built by the Elox Corp., Clawson, Mich. The copper, acting as an electrode, can drill a hole one-tenth of an inch in diameter through 40 inches of steel. Expected price...