Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim, sociable gentleman, whose feverish energy left his London friends panting. He founded the Northern Dispensary, helped found the University of London and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He was chief physician to the Spanish embassy and the Milbank penitentiary, and when he lectured at the London Institution, students and ladies of fashion alike flocked to hear...
...explanations of the aurora borealis over the centuries have been as colorful as the spectacle itself. When great luminous curtains seemed to swish and crackle in the sky, Norsemen knew that Valkyries were riding abroad. Midwestern Indians looked up and thought they saw the fires of northern medicine men making stew of their enemies. Today's Eskimos watch the polar pyrotechnics and mumble about the spirits of the dead. Modern science has still another theory...
...bull market's pacesetter has been a famed old speculator's favorite, Northern Pacific, which shot up because of its vast land holdings in the Northwest's Williston oil basin. Last week Texaco's Chairman W.S.S. Rodgers told his stockholders at their annual meeting that the basin is going to be a major producing area, but that the cost of development will be high because wells must be drilled deep. It will be "several years" before oil is flowing in quantity. Result: Northern Pacific tumbled nearly ten points to 74⅛, scaring the whole market into...
...later, Socony-Vacuum's Vice President J. C. Case took a different view of the basin at Socony's annual meeting. Said he: Socony is finding good oil at depths as shallow as 3,000 ft. and will drill eight to ten wells there this year. Result: Northern Pacific shot up nearly five points, and the whole market rose. Other oilmen explained the seeming contradiction in Williston estimates: Texaco's holdings are near the center of the basin, where the oil is more than 9,000 ft. down, whereas others on the rim (like Socony) can strike...
...rather takes it as a credo and a profession of the White Man's Supremacy, and the need for that supremacy to assert itself--lest it all happen again. After recent "race" incidents in Detroit, St. Louis, Cicero, Cairo, Ill., and San Francisco, one should not say that Northern audiences are much more objective. I have my doubts about Boston...