Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prediction Unit at Suitland, Md., where the Air Force, Navy and Weather Bureau have pooled their forces. Weather information flows into the machines from both ground stations and upper-air probes. Some 1,400 punched cards cover North America. Other information equally important comes from the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, including Soviet Russia and Communist China. The machine even "edits" the raw data, selecting from masses of figures the special ones wanted, such as air pressure at 18,000 ft. over the Aleutian Islands...
...million expansion by Canada's International Nickel Co., world's biggest nickel producer. Company is boosting prices 9½? a lb., by 1960 will increase annual capacity by 50% to 385 million Ibs. Inco is opening two big new mines in Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba, building concentrator, smelter, refinery, and city for 8,000 on site...
...seven years into millions." So said Dallas Geologist John A. Jackson last week as the biggest uncommitted natural-gas field in the U.S. was opened up by the Federal Power Commission. FPC approved the sale of 105 million cu. ft. of gas daily in the Wise County area of northern Texas to the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, one of the biggest U.S. gas distributors. To get the gas from Wise County to its own main line Fritch, Texas, Natural Gas will spend $32.1 million to build a 350-mile pipeline...
...they will play upon Johnson's presidential ambitions, for the canny Texan must know he cannot hope to win the 1960 nomination without support from the liberal Northern wing. He may therefore be disposd to compromise. But it is in the give-and-take of the Senate and House, rather than in the artificial workings of a committee with a top level but nothing beneath it, that any progressive legislation and responsible Opposition can be molded...
...athletics do indeed "belong to the students," as the University insists, action must be taken on a proposal the Council has returned to committee. This is the resectioning of the stadium to give undergraduates better seats. At present Harvard students can have seats on only the northern side of the fifty-yard line; the southern side, sections 29, 30 and 31, is for former Varsity Club men with season tickets, former lettermen, and players and University officials, respectively...