Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman Catholic pro-labor liberalism and New Dealism came to the Southwest in a big way this month when the new Archbishop of San Antonio sponsored a two-week School of Social Justice-the first ever held in that section. To it went 147 priests, mostly young, mostly from the San Antonio province. Coatless and often collarless. they sat intent day after day in the sweltering heat, mopping their brows and taking notes. Some things they were taught...
...have been foreshadowed by the German High Command-vastly more reliable than the official Nazi D.N.B. news agency-which claimed that the chief Russian forces in the center around Smolensk had been "destroyed." Russia admitted that a powerful German pincer thrust toward Kiev had reached Belaya Tserkov, 60 miles southwest of the city...
Died. Harvey Crowley Couch, 63, the Southwest's No. 1 utilitycoon, Arkansas's wealthiest citizen; at his summer home on Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, Ark. Son of a farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus...
Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...
...electrical power from fresh water will determine the future of the U.S., the power phase of the project now ranks with the navigation phase. To yoke the river's great flow (220,000 cubic feet per second) two huge dams would be thrown up in the International Rapids southwest of Montreal (see cut). Here two titanic stations would harness 820,000 kilowatts of electricity (Grand Coulee: 1,944,000 kilowatts), half for the U.S., half for Canada. Estimated cost of power development only...