Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau's radar showed it by early evening as the hooked tail on an egg-shaped thunderstorm blob moving northeastward across Kansas one day last week. At 6:30 p.m., as the Missouri city was settling down to supper, a storm-warning volunteer near Williamsburg, Kans., 70 miles southwest of the city, backstopped the radar. In the storm's ugly grey clouds, he telephoned, was a groping funnel. Ten minutes later, urged on by bulletins from three television and seven radio stations. Kansas City's householders began heading for their cellars...
...week before Kansas City's disaster, 22 people died when a tornado struck Silverton, Texas. In the week after, so many twisters swept the Southwest that the normally restrained Weather Bureau found the situation "fantastic." One storm hit the small (pop. 207) town of Fremont, Mo. and demolished it, killing six and injuring 50. Seven others died in Missouri tornadoes the same day. At week's end, the U.S. Weather Bureau logged the highest one-day tornado count ever recorded in the U.S.: 50 twisters whirled across the West and Southwest, killing at least four more...
Compass Points. In Miami, House Painter Elias Barimo, bringing a $100,000 suit against the Southern Bell Telephone Co.. stated that in painting an office baseboard he "commenced at the southwest corner, painting in a northerly direction to the northwest corner, then easterly to the northeast corner, then southerly to the southeast corner, and then commenced painting in a westerly direction along the south wall toward the point of beginning," where he bumped into a telephone booth placed against the wall while he was at work and was struck on the head by a panel...
...Chengting, 150 miles southwest of Peking, students actually staged a march on the capital, and party officials had to cajole them into returning to their classes. In Harbin students have flatly refused to attend standard Communist lectures on "collective life, political theories and central guidance," i.e., party rule...
...layoffs last fall. Deere & Co. President William A. Hewitt told stockholders that they can expect 10%-20% more business. We estimate that farm income will be 3% to 5% higher in 1957." The brighter outlook came from a break m the drought that had dried up 14 Midwest and Southwest states, plus soil-bank payments, which will make participating farmers an average $1,000 richer in 1957 t came also from smarter marketing a curbing of production to meet demand. Hog shipments were down 13% thus pushing prices as high as $18.25 cwt v. $15.75 last year...