Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers recruited in the U.S. and taken to Greenland to build the base at Thule (on the island's far northwestern rim, some 650 miles above the Arctic Circle) were paid $3,000,000 in wages before they reached the site...
...Navy veteran an da graduate of Northwestern...
...rich as the famed Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota. Above an Indian village named Kitimat, in the stony heights of British Columbia, engineers are damming half a dozen mountain lakes, creating a waterfall 15 times as high as Niagara, to power the world's biggest aluminum plant. In Northwestern Ontario, engineers are draining a 150-ft.-deep lake; when it is dry, they will dredge away 70 million tons of clay and gravel from the bottom to get at an iron-ore deposit that lies underneath...
...wanted to be a newspaperman, but his father prevailed on him to go to law school. Within two years, he dropped out of Harvard because of low grades. He did better at Northwestern University law school, and passed the Illinois bar examinations...
Between Harvard and Northwestern, Stevenson worked for 18 months as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. He still owns a quarter-interest in that prosperous county paper, and gets most of his income from it. After he got his degree from Northwestern, he went to Russia in an effort to interview Russian Foreign Minister Chicherin, who had refused to talk to foreign correspondents. No interview, but an interesting trip...