Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of Representatives; Her Majesty's Governor General, Lord Hailes, will now name the 19-member Senate. Princess Margaret will inaugurate the legislature April 22 in the new capital, Trinidad's Port of Spain-and The West Indies will be in business...
...mile line from Iran's Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, and the two nations have offer of financial help from U.S. investors headed by Wall Street's Allen & Co. Prospect is that Iraq will hook into line via short feeder pipe, thus bypassing Syria...
...Short-Order Pasture. A farm machine that uses the hydroponic method of growth (in a chemical solution without soil) was put on the market by Buckeye Corp., maker of chicken incubators. Housed in a 120-sq-ft aluminum building, it can match 15 to 25 acres of cattle pasturage by growing 45 tons of fresh grass a year at about $13 a ton. Lit by fluorescent lamps, it works night and day. Price...
...treasurer in 1948. became president in 1956. Into Gilbert's job goes Boone Gross. 53, a Texas-born West Pointer ('26) who heads Gillette's safety-razor division. As chief executive officer, Gilbert will face a $6,000,000 sales slide caused in part by the short, straight Italian haircut, which has cut sharply into the sales of Gillette's Toni home permanents. Says Gilbert of the style: "It'll change...
...short, South Pacific is about as tastelessly impressive as a ten-ton marshmallow. Nevertheless, it will probably run almost as long as it did on Broadway (1,925 performances), and it seems sure to make yet another bale of kale for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. If it does, most of the credit will belong to the memorable score by Rodgers and to the shrewdly sentimental Broadway book by Hammerstein and Logan...