Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bald Everett Needham Case four years ago became a college president at 41; last week his kid brother, James Herbert Case Jr., made the grade the day before he turned 40. Jim Case took over at small, 159-year-old Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., 300 miles southwest of Brother Ev's Colgate. Chief speaker at the inaugural: Brother...
...talking Nick Bez was quite a fisherman himself. He owned or controlled 1) three of the biggest salmon canneries in Alaska, 2) a string of fishing vessels, 3) two gold mines, 4) an airline-West Coast Airlines, which next month will start a feeder service fanning from Portland into southwest Washington and western Oregon. Since then Nick Bez has also acquired, with financing from...
...wreck was only 22 miles southwest of the great international airport at Gander. There, beset by fog, a Douglas Skymaster of the Belgian Sabena Lines had crashed one morning last week, New York-bound from Brussels. In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo. Swiftly and efficiently, one of the most complicated rescues in flying history got under...
...wreck was spotted, a Navy PBY dropped down on a lake three miles from the wreck. From the moored plane, a 13-man rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is the massive Widener Library, largest university library in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in World War I. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of the Superintendent of Caretakers and of University bill collectors...