Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PACIFIC NORTHWEST is battling worst economic decline in decade. Lumber sales and prices are off from last year, fishing industry is smarting from Japanese competition and lower U.S. consumption, and payroll at Boeing, area's biggest employer, is being trimmed. Washington State unemployment is up 43% from last year. Fighting back, Washington, Oregon governors are forming development commissions to attract new business to depressed area...
...hundred miles to the northwest, little Ozark (pop. 1,757), where racial conflict was unknown, had integrated its high school without a hint of protest. But the sparks from Little Rock soon landed and flared: a Negro girl was hit with a clothes hanger; a boy was struck in the back with a book-and a white motorist tried to run down two Negro children as they walked home from school. Integration was suspended, and Miss Elizabeth Burrow, half owner of the weekly Ozark Spectator, dying of throat cancer, wrote to her townspeople: "Here's a malignancy worse than...
...horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...
...Casper, Wyo. last week. There he threw a switch inaugurating the biggest power transmission project in the history of his state, a 251-mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which Pacific Power is rushing to completion. With the new plant operating, Wyoming's electric generating capacity will increase 50%, transforming the state from...
THIS week, in the midst of 280 landscaped acres of rolling Connecticut countryside five miles northwest of Hartford, the blare of bands and cheers of a crowd wall officially dedicate the new $19 million gleaming glass, aluminum and marble headquarters-in-the-country of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Already chosen by the American Institute of Architects as one of the "Ten Buildings in America's Future." it is not only a splendid example of the precisely machined modern elegance in which U.S. architects lead the world, but is likely to become the most honored building...