Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later on, comes General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia (read by Lee's 77-year-old cousin once-removed, the Rev. Edmund Jennings Lee of Shepherdstown, W. Va.), and finally a rousing performance of Dixie that ends in a high-pitched, blood-chilling rebel yell. Bound into the album are 32 pages of pictures and texts by Civil War Experts Bruce Catton and Clifford Dowdey...
Despite the closing of Northern mills, the industry is still saddled with too many antiquated, marginal mills. The Census Bureau's 1950 count still showed more than 10,000 textile mills operating in the U.S., 73% of them with fewer than 100 employees each, compared to 6,400 mills...
CYRUS EATON is negotiating with Krupp and Germany's other big steel producers to supply them with iron ore from his enormous Ungava Bay deposits near Quebec's northern coast. German technicians have already surveyed the site, are considering supplying mining equipment and building docks at a deep-water harbor less than 20 miles from...
...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
...Russian student-exchange program to further "communication"-a surefire controversy in 1948-there was little inflamed oratory. The motion was merely voted down, 235-69. An almost inevitable resolution on segregation packed a surprise: it was far milder than the U.S. Supreme Court ban, was challenged only by four Northern delegates-for its severity. Joe McCarthy was routinely deplored, rather than denounced; not even a stouthearted right-winger rose to Red-bait in reply. Nor did the students spend much time discussing the vagaries of the draft and U.M.T. (rejected by N.S.A. in 1952). Said one N.S.A. officer...