Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after consulting several handbooks (including What Shall We Name the Baby?), Hogan and helpers put out the new 1955 list of hurricane names: Alice, Brenda, Connie. Diane. Edith. Flora, Gladys, Hilda, lone, Janet, Katie, Linda, Martha, Nelly, Orva, Peggy, Queena. Rosa, Stella, Trudy, Ursa, Verna, Wilma, Xenia, Yvonne and Zelda. Only holdover: Alice, used because an out-of-season hurricane arrived before its name was chosen...
...LINE will build two 20-knot passenger-cargo ships under the Federal Maritime Board's $385 million shipbuilding and repair program (TIME, Aug. 9). Grace will spend about $40 million, of which 50% may be Government subsidy, for 300-passenger, 16,000-ton ships to replace its Santa Rosa and Santa Paula on the run from North Atlantic ports to the Caribbean...
Julius La Rosa singing In My Own Quiet Way. Comments: "Oldfashioned Tommy Dorsey sort of thing," and "Too many words." Turned down...
MARIA CROCIFISSA DI ROSA (1813-55) left convent school at 17 to take over her wealthy father's silk factory at Brescia, Italy, where she saw to the spiritual and material welfare of the workers. In the cholera epidemic of 1836 she nursed the sick, which led to her foundation of the Servants of Charity...
Sunday Service. In Santa Rosa, Calif., while Police Sergeant Jack Plover was in church, five prisoners broke out of the county jail, walked a mile through the city streets, found Plover's parked car and drove...