Word: skied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This winter an estimated 3,000,000 skiers will be out on slopes from Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain to Oregon's Mount Hood. There is skiing in Taos, N. Mex. and on North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, and ski clubs have appeared in Amarillo, Texas and Louisville...
...closely tended to preserve what falls, often too much of it in the West, where gun crews must shoot down avalanches to ensure safety and jumbo storms can seal off an area for days. Vermont's Mt. Snow opened the first outdoor swimming pool at an Eastern ski resort. California's plush new $1,750,000 inn at Mammoth Mountain was doing a land-office business. Michigan's Boyne Mountain resort was plowing back $250,000 a year into improvements. All in all, there were no fewer than 90 new overhead lifts operating in U.S. areas this...
...wife: "How would you like to live in these mountains?" Justine did not look up from her cards. "Are you out of your mind, Cushing?" she inquired icily. But two years later the Cushings and the McFaddens headed west once more to check on Squaw as a possible ski resort. They never got there. Skiing down a dangerous slope at Aspen with two experienced skiers one morning, the two brothers-in-law were trapped when a huge avalanche cut loose above them. Cushing was buried to his neck. Alexander McFadden died under tons of snow. The death of his closest...
Despite the tragedy. Cushing was obsessed with opening a ski area, went into partnership with Airman Poulsen to develop Squaw in June 1948. Poulsen supplied the land-640 acres-and Cushing the money-$400,000. Alec and Justine invested $145,000 of their own, got $50,000 from Laurance Rockefeller, the rest from other friends...
...showed nothing legally wrong, Cushing replaced Poulsen as president of Squaw Valley Development. Today, a bitter Poulsen still controls choice homesites in the valley (and stands to become a millionaire with the land boom caused by Cushing's getting the Olympics), but Cushing and the corporation have exclusive ski rights, since they possess the only lift permit allotted to the area by the U.S. Forest Service...