Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Whitten, newsmen from other Dallas radio and TV stations helped make last week's devastating storm what one scientist called "the best-documented tornado in history." As the whirling funnel gouged a path through the city from southeast to northwest, killing ten, injuring 200 and causing a $4,000,000 loss in smashed homes and businesses, radiomen tracked it closely in swift mobile units. Since the twister rarely moved faster than 20 m.p.h., they often sped in front of it, frequently beat police and disaster units to scenes of havoc. They gave thousands of homeward-bound motorists accurate...
...laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those who have known him longest, Beck never suffered so much as a hangnail. But such was the shadow he cast through his goon squad, that the rank-and-file Teamster still thinks...
...chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
During the Air Corps' lean years, Reserve Officer Schriever built up a many-sided experience both on active and inactive duty. He flew lumbering B-3 Keystone bombers, ferried the mails, made a parachute jump (with proper military permission) just for the experience, worked as a copilot for Northwest Airlines on the Seattle-Billings run, served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg...
...jail at Mitrovica, 40 miles northwest of Belgrade, was built (the story goes), and many people came to visit its inmates-who included, between World Wars I and II, such distinguished members of the subsequent Communist government of Yugoslavia as President Jbsip Broz Tito, successive Vice Presidents Milovan Djilas and Alexander Ran-kovic, and late Assembly President Mosha Pijade. The Communists had such an easy time of it in Mitrovica jail (Tito swotted up on Stalinism, Pijade , translated Das Kapital and smuggled it out to a printer) that when they took over, they made certain that their own victims...