Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show Biz (Victor LP). An audible history of the entertainment world for the past half-century. A fast-moving, name-dropping kaleidoscope, narrated by George Jessel, it is illustrated by selections of everybody who was anybody from Will Rogers to Dinah Shore...
...they had to sell gold, and in December alone sold an estimated $85 million. But if the U.S. does not lower tariffs so that its friends can sell it more goods, they may well turn to the eager Russians-and the opportunity may be gone to let freer trade shore up the political freedom of the West, as well as help the long-range economic health...
...chemical industry was changing other landscapes, too. Outside Cleveland, a 30-mile stretch of Lake Erie shoreline was dubbed "Chemical Shore." Along it lay $235 million worth of chemical plants, and $40 million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau...
...miles north of the equator, not far from where the Nile rises, the Mountains of the Moon face east towards a mighty lake that could drown the state of West Virginia. On the northern shore of Lake Victoria sits Kampala (pop. 22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen...
...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...