Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lakes. This week the Army will open bids for the second stage of the project, the deepening of a channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost to the Federal Government: $136 million, more than has been spent on the Great Lakes connecting channels in the past 130 years...
Dawson is professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and was Chief of the Middle East Division of the Foreign Economic Administration. He served as Director of the Foreign Trade Administration for the Greek government...
...Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark (Louisiana State), the New York Yankees' First Baseman "Moose" Skowron (Purdue), Philadelphia's Pitcher Robin Roberts (Michigan State) served briefly in the bush leagues...
...Washington, the biennial election of the League of Republican Women came close to hair-pulling when the Old Guard girls snatched away and tore up the sample ballots of the Eisenhower Republican faction . . . To Republican Dwight Eisenhower from Michigan Republican William Doerfner, a General Motors steering-gear executive, came an angry letter: "I will no longer support you, nor will I support the Republican Party, as long as it condones your proven unsound monetary politics and your New Deal-inspired international WPA . . ." In New Hampshire, the reactionary Republican Manchester Union Leader editorially called the President of the U.S. a "stinking...
Immortality. "I'm overly ambitious," Jockey Miller admits. He blames his two divorces, one from Singer June Valli, on his lust for his career. He feels the pangs of his "hunger for immortality" as he stares out. of the window in his eight-room apartment overlooking Lake Michigan. "I wish I could be a lawyer, a great stage performer, a John Gielgud, an archcriminal. I would love to plot the strategy of a great bank holdup. I frequently plotted one and never carried it through." Then Miller's pleasant voice hits a note of deadly earnest...