Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the world's developed nations, the U.S. is sparsely populated. Reported the Bureau of the Census last week: the U.S. population of about 172 million covers the 3,000,000 sq. mi. of land at the factor of 57 people per sq. mi. Libya (estimated 1955 pop. 1,105,000), with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people per sq. mi. Countries with...
...deserts where the Colorado enters the Gulf of California into fields of cotton, plots of tomatoes and the purple traceries, of grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
Glistening, growing Denver (pop. 511,800) had a dynamic mayor in Will Faust Nicholson. An Ivy Leaguer (Dartmouth, '22), he made a good marriage (to the daughter of a Cripple Creek mining man), a good career (investment banking, real estate) and a good name (twice elected as a Republican to the state senate). He was elected nonpartisan mayor of Denver in 1955 by only 802 votes, but Big Nick was marked well for the future by his good Republican connections in the state. Long, lanky (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) and handsome, he sported a friendly, lopsided smile...
Laos. The Communist Pathet Lao, controlling two of the twelve provinces, has joined the central government, whose authority is thereby extended to all of the little jungle kingdom (pop. 1,400,000 to 2,500,000). Though not seriously alarmed as yet, U.S. officials watch anxiously as Communist troops take their place in the royal army, and a Communist Minister of Planning helps decide how U.S. funds ($43 million this year) are to be spent...
...Aren't we all?" said Her Majesty, smiled graciously and moved on. Thus the Crown noted the existence of the most raucous sound currently abroad in Great Britain: the throbbing voice and thumping guitar of Pop Singer Tommy Steele...