Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played the first couple of numbers straight-the melody always there, easy and obvious. Then she leered from between her big rhinestone earrings and let the crowd know that she was about to take off. She basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers. She jumped from her bench as if kicked by a mule, grimaced like an ulcer case on the way out, writhed like a belly dancer, sucked her thumb, tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note...
...sturdiness was a widespread modernization program, which cut industry costs and made production more efficient. Few firms benefited more handsomely from that policy than the nation's 17th-largest steel producer, a perky little maverick named Granite City Steel Co., located in Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. While the industry is back to about 75% of capacity, Granite City Steel this week is humming along at close to 100% of capacity, hopes to keep or better the pace for the rest of the year...
...paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling rights on 3,000,000 acres, five years later brought in Peace River's first producer. Today, Peace River ranks as one of the world's great...
...growth. Since 1946, British Columbia Electric Co. has quadrupled its sales of electricity; but even so, the populous lower mainland and Vancouver Island face the prospect of power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea is to build a dam on the Columbia at Mica Creek, north...
...past or even the present, is where British Columbia sets its sights. Last year Premier Bennett announced that his government proposed to license Sweden's Multimillionaire Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957) to build a $400 million-to-$600 million hydroelectric project on the Peace River, wire the electricity 600 miles to Vancouver. Wenner-Gren would also study the possibility of building pulp and paper mills, mines and smelters in the undeveloped northland. Since then, Wenner-Gren has spent an estimated $10 million surveying possible dam sites, prospecting for minerals...