Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swimming. Inventor Walter Bird of Buffalo demonstrated a plastic cover for winterizing outdoor swimming pools. The pool cover is supported by raising inside air pressure slightly with an electric blower. Bird says that sunshine makes the water comfortably warm in fall and spring, but recommends a water heater in northern climates in midwinter. Estimated cost of cover, which is stored away in summer, is less than $1.50 per square foot of area enclosed...
...British ship's captain became an international incident). His most spectacular adventure was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch armed with a torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated...
Idea Man. In Great Falls, Mont., after a month-long contest to name the new club for employees of the Great Northern Railway, the prize went to the suggestion of Club President Lloyd J. Warnke: "The Great Northern Railway Employees Club...
...first trip to Africa just after graduation from Vassar, Mrs. Hubbard accompanied her husband, a geologist. Instead of mining asbestos as planned, they spent three years in Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese North Africa capturing animals for zoos...
...Hubbard then returned twice to help produce Paramount's film "Gold" and Warner Brothers' "Adventures in Africa." The latter was filmed in the Kafue Flats of Northern Rhodesia, which is also the setting of her new book...