Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Talent. In Denver, Rocky Mountain News Reporter Jack Gaskie, posing as an unemployed furniture salesman to do a story on the U.S. Employment Service, took eight hours of tests and interviews, was advised to go into newspaper work...
Lederle Laboratories developed aureomycin, an antibiotic, to treat such human ills as whooping cough, typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This week Drs. E.L.R. Stokstad and T.H. Jukes of Lederle told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society that aureomycin has an unexpected non-medical talent: it makes domestic animals grow faster...
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas, 51, suffered his near-fatal accident on Washington's Crystal Mountain (TIME, Oct. 10), he was no Eastern greenhorn in search of a thrill, but a mountain-climbing veteran who could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting...
Across the South Atlantic, Republic Steel Corp. was working a concession in the rich mountain area of Liberia. Within two years it hoped to be shipping 1,000,-ooo tons of iron ore a year from Monrovia to steel mills...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robbert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...