Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was almost no warning. What had been only an angry sea storm at night exploded before dawn into a rampage that raked the coastal lengths of The Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and the southeastern coasts of England. Pushing at the mouths of rivers and canals, the wind-driven tides drove floodwaters far inland-across 40 miles of The Netherlands in some areas, even into Germany as far as Düsseldorf (90 miles from the Zuider Zee), well up England's Thames into the streets of London's suburbs...
...scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped and sunk the ferry Princess Victoria on the run from Stranraer, Scotland toward Northern Ireland...
...Land. Twice as big as Louisiana, and watered by the crocodile-haunted Volta River, the Gold Coast includes: 1) the Crown Colony proper, a strip of steaming forest along the surf-beaten coast; 2) the Kingdom of Ashanti, astride the interior plateau; and 3) the Northern Territories. The North is a sun-baked wasteland, many of whose primitive people live in holes in the ground; their women go naked, with a tuft of leaves before and behind...
Well might the northern land have considered statehood not only a patent right, but one owed her for some time. Her citizens pay in excess of twenty million dollars a year without the privilege of even sending a voting senator to represent them in Washington. Moreover, Alaska has footed the cost of most of her own internal improvements. The Federal Government has given her little but military installations, while Alaska has poured over three billion dollars of raw materials into U.S. factories...
...executive too old for his job? Inland Steel's 66-year-old Chairman Edward L. Ryerson, who holds directorships in five other companies, answered the question last week by resigning from one of them to open "opportunity for younger men." Ryerson, quitting the board of Chicago's Northern Trust Co., said his action was part of his plan for "gradual retirement" from his other directorships and finally from Inland...