Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconceivable that the new Secretary of Agriculture could solve the farm problem before election time or could extinguish farmer discontent. In addition, since 1952, the GOP has polled fewer and fewer votes in the Far Western states, excepting Utah. The currently deepening economic recession in the Pacific Northwest also lessens Republican strength in that area...
...years ago. This week the Vatican radio (call letters: HVJ, which have no particular significance) will go on the air with a far stronger voice: a powerful, new transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on a 200-acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short...
Much of John Conway's personality can be understood in terms of his great love for the "emptiness" of the great Canadian Northwest. This area, where he has lived--canoeing, camping, and working at logging camps during the summer--is famed for its natural grandeur. But its quiet, vast peacefulness is nonetheless instinct with a sometimes awesome vitality...
...went on to the business at hand. From Texas and Montreal, from London and Manhattan, McMahon had invited some 400 bankers, oilmen, businessmen and their wives to a razzle-dazzle two-day blowout in celebration of the link-up of his Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. pipeline to the U.S. Northwest. Chartering five four-engine aircraft (at a cost of $13,000 each), McMahon got the wingding off in high gear by serving cocktails with breakfast on the flight to Fort St. John. There the guests were provided with more clothing-350 pairs of overshoes and 350 raincoats flown in from...
...first gas well, Pacific Fort St. John No. 3. By 1955 McMahon won permission from the U.S. Federal Power Commission to export gas to the U.S., started to build a $170 million, 650-mile pipeline from the Peace River area to the U.S. border, to hook into the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp.'s six-state gas grid...