Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the U.S. State Department does not want to be tagged as encouraging Latin American dictators, Tacho's visit was unofficial. But for an uninvited guest, Nicaragua's doughty President had a fine time. In between receptions, visits to Arlington and Mt. Vernon and a baseball doubleheader (Washington beat St. Louis in both games), Tacho hoped to find time to ask loans for some transport and electrification projects. This week he will visit Boston's Lahey Clinic for a checkup on a 1946 intestinal operation, and may visit Philadelphia, where he attended business" school and courted...
...February 1951, Los Angeles' KTLA set up a camera on Mt. Wilson, 300 miles from Frenchman's Flats, Nev., and televised a blast for local audiences...
...From Charleston Peak, 140 miles-the longest jump ever attempted-to a relay on unnamed Mt. X. To get 12,000 Ibs. of equipment to the peak, Landsberg borrowed a Marine Corps helicopter, which did the job in just 48 hours...
...From Mt. X, about 53 miles to Mt. San Antonio, Calif., where equipment had been sledded up in snow weasels...
...From Mt. San Antonio, about 23 miles to KTLA's transmitter atop Mt. Wilson, and from there across the U.S. via coaxial cable...