Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peabody Coal Co., the nation's No. 2 commercial coal producer (No. 1: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal), succeeding Otto Gressens, who became board chairman. Son of a Pittsburg, Kans. miner, Kelce went into the pits at 15, by the time he was 22 owned his own mine in Oklahoma. In 1924 Kelce moved into small Sinclair Coal, which actually owned no mines and acted only as a coal seller. In a few years he made the Sinclair group into one of the nation's biggest producers, with 17 mines in six states. Last month, Peabody Coal, which...
...Lawyer. In Oklahoma City, Airman 2/C John F. Crozman filed suit for $10,000 against Lieut. Colonel Walter Callahan, charged that the colonel had damaged his reputation by calling him lazy in the presence of Airman Miles Miller...
...Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers reported that some of its members may have to pay a heavy price for desegregation. Since the state started integrating its schools, 68 out of 1,600 Negro teachers have already found themselves without jobs, and the association estimates that the number may reach 300. Reason: though white schools will take in Negro pupils, they will not always have room for those pupils' former teachers...
Peculiar Pattern. Tornado clouds are unpleasant subjects to study at close range, and so they are not completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread...
...Waves Know. A new electronic tool is much more promising than radar. As far back as 1947, Dr. Herbert L. Jones of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mining College discovered that lightning flashes from tornado clouds send out "sferics" (atmospheric radio waves) of unusually high frequency. Such waves can be detected a long way off, and distinguished from ordinary thunderstorm sferics...