Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains and the fur, mineral and timber country of Northern Ontario and Quebec. Their camp sites, trading posts and missions are today's cities and towns...
...Angeles, 905 voting "commissioners" of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) turned out for its 167th General Assembly, representing 2,658,903 members and 256 presbyteries. Without a dissenting voice, the delegates approved a statement of the church's Permanent Commission deploring the Roman Catholic "trend to exalt the figure of the Virgin Mother to the office of associate partner in the work of redemption." This development, said the statement, "has widened the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian communions...
Poker Price. He began by racing motorcycles. As a schoolboy, he played poker to raise the price of bike rentals, and he competed wherever he could-from the Milan piazza to the open-road races through northern and central Italy. He cracked up soon and often, but he kept coming back. In 1940, when he was 21, he graduated to autos. Small, stock Fiats were his first mounts; for his first big races in the Mille Miglia and at Palermo, he managed to get hold of a Ferrari. Motor trouble forced him out each time...
ALASKAN AIRLINE MERGER between Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines will be pushed by CAB to reduce the need for subsidies...
...copper producer (behind Kennecott), succeeding Cornelius F. Kelley (TIME, May 30). Glover got a law degree at the University of Oregon in 1915, served as a sergeant in World War I. In 1919 he hung out his shingle in Great Falls, Mont., representing among others Montana Power, Great Northern Railway, Anaconda. He joined Anaconda's legal department full time in 1943, and within eight years was general counsel and a vice president. Recently, Glover skillfully helped resolve thorny difficulties over taxes and exchange rates with Chile, where Anaconda mines Chuquicamata, the world's greatest single copper ore body...