Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Utilities and building materials continued their climb. Owens-Corning Fiberglas profits rode the building boom up a whopping 53.6%, to $2,293,257. Standard Oil of California boosted 1953's third-quarter profits by 4.2%, to $50,876,733, and tacked an extra 75? onto its regular 75? quarterly dividend. But Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) eased off 11.5%, to $145 million...
...countryside is still liberally sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still...
Samuel Johnson, a Yale graduate and Connecticut cleric, reluctantly rode down to accept the presidency of the new institution. Nine years later he resigned, bewildered by the complexities of city life, but only after he had seen the nation's fifty oldest college--renamed Columbia after the Revolutionary War--established as New York's challenge to Princeton, New Haven, and Cambridge...
...effort to soften the effect of the motion, Secretary Humphrey Fisher '55 offered an amendment explicitly stating that the H.L.U: would retain its independent authority and freedom of action in campus affairs. But after nearly two hours of debate, the membership over-rode the amendment and went on to vote down the original motion by a 16 to 11 margin...
Last week the treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...