Word: rosario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Austin Rosario ("Iron Glove") Maceo, 66, illiterate, Sicilian-born gambling czar of Galveston, Texas (pop. 66,568), which he helped make one of the widest-open towns in the U.S.; after a long illness; in Galveston. With his late brother Sam ("Velvet Glove"), Maceo became a Prohibition rumrunner, afterwards branched out with plush gambling clubs, raked in as much as $4,000,000 a year. In 1951, state legislators investigated his illegal empire, but could never get tolerant Galveston police to put Iron Glove in jail...
Steel & Oil. Backed by U.S. banks, such firms as Caterpillar, International Harvester, Westinghouse, John Deere and Armco are discussing plans to put money into Argentine enterprises. Armco, Westinghouse, and McKee of Cleveland want to finish the $140 million steel mill the Argentines started at San Nicolas near Rosario. With the enthusiastic blessing of Peron, who now has to spend $500,000 a day of Argentina's dollar funds for foreign oil, representatives of U.S. oil companies have been discussing the future development of the country's underground resources. Argentine sources predict that if the oilmen decide to bring...
...Rosario typographers' union voted to set type no longer for any newspaper that carries U.P.. A.P. or I.N.S. news...
...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
...Held by Amateur Ornithologist Rosario Mazzeo...