Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open secret that California's Governor Earl Warren, 62, would like a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But the present nine justices are spry, sturdy fellows (Bill Douglas, 54, is a mountain climber; Hugo Black. 67, still plays tennis), and they like their jobs. The best hope for Governor Warren-and for California's Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who would like to have Warren's job-is that the oldest member of the court, Felix Frankfurter, 70, might soon retire...
What Next? At dawn on the third day, G.I.s donned their "flak jackets" and helmets again, moved down the scarred slopes from dozens of famous hills where U.N. soldiers had died: Heartbreak Ridge, Whitehorse Mountain, Christmas Hill, The Hook, Little Gibraltar. Somber and unsmiling, the men wondered what would happen to them next...
Unloose thy spleen on oaks and mountain-peaks...
...Platte Pipe Line Co. will open a $62 million, 1,149-mile, 20-inch oil pipeline next week that will give Rocky Mountain oil producers a big new market for their crude. The line, which runs from eastern Wyoming to refineries near St. Louis, is capable of delivering 110,000 barrels...
From John L. Lewis' headquarters came only an Olympian snort: "The mountain labored and brought forth a Moody." But even Lewis could not laugh off the sad facts of how high-priced coal is being squeezed out of the market by oil and gas. Coal production has dropped from 630.6 million tons in 1947 to an estimated 440 million tons this year. The industry's 440,000 miners averaged only 3.3 days' work last week, but in the southern mines some worked less than two days...