Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sodom (current population: about 1,000), where the Lord saved Lot and his naughty daughters, then rained fire and brimstone on the sinful city, a 6 ft. sign went up this month. Written in Hebrew and English, it noted that "Sodom is the lowest point of habitation in the world, 1,286 ft. below sea level." Then, after telling the Biblical story of Sodom's destruction, it added: "Today, Sodom is the center of Israel's potash production...
...Land of Sodom. But he was well aware that without British subsidy Jordan would starve. It was the Biblical land of Sodom, and some say that the curse has never been lifted. Only 5% of its land was cultivated at all. Among the flints and pebbles on the treeless brown hills around Amman grew scattered stands of wheat. Flanked by rich oil lands, Jordan had no oil of its own, got revenue only from tolls on the two pipelines that cross it from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "A cement factory and a cigarette plant constitute Jordan's heavy industry...
...Phenix City Story (Allied Artists). Long before the Civil War, Phenix City, Ala.-its name was Lively in those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed in the vice factories-gambling dens, brothels, dope parlors-that lined Phenix City's 14th and Dillingham Streets. By night the population doubled, and most of the steady customers came from Fort Benning, the U.S. Army's training camp across the Chattahoochee. When the boys didn't come...
...scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across the lake is an adult-resort camp named South Wind, and South Wind, Mama Morgenstern snorts, is nothing less than Sodom...
Virgin on the Verge. To Sodom, of course, the girls surreptitiously go. There Marjorie meets Noel Airman (real name: Saul Ehrmann), who has red hair, a handsome profile and the glamorous job of putting on revues at South Wind. To the despair of Noel's aspiring, pimply assistant, Wally Wronken, Airman is a triple-threat man-an artist, a libertine and an intellectual who can shred phony highbrows "like a flame thrower...