Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promise that he could ship cheaper than Eastern mills and on 24 hours' notice. Using low-grade local iron ore to save on transportation costs, Germany made good on his promise, and before long Lone Star was one of the top suppliers of pipe in the Southwestern oilfields. With more borrowed money. Germany then launched a $40 million expansion program and broadened his product line until it ranged from reinforcing rods to air raid shelters. Last year Lone Star earned $3,559,000 on sales of $71.2 million, ran at 68% capacity compared with an industry average...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner Jr., 57, speed-happy heir to a $300 million Southwestern cattle-and-oil empire, who spent more than $1,000,000 building his unlimited (2,000-plus h.p.) hydroplanes Maverick and Shanty, which, despite endless mishaps, blazed their way to top U.S. speedboat records; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Democrat has drawn in Texas in many years. He was victorious in a city which has a Republican mayor and a Republican city council. He won by a substantial eleven thousand votes, emerging not only as the winner of a Congressional race but also as a great figure in Southwestern politics upon whose shoulders rests much of the responsibility for the liberal movement in Texas...
...background is the southwestern American desert and a training base for fighter pilots and gunners. In the foreground is a section of the base hospital called Ward 7, known to the top brass as Sunnybrook Farm and to its inmates as Psycho Beach. There Captain Josiah J. Newman, M.D., fights his war against "everything from tics to combat fatigue," depending chiefly on his own central intelligence and flak-juice (Pentothal Sodium) as his principal weapons...
Among the unnumbered Americans who suffered last week from sniffles and fevers caused by a variety of viruses, tens of thousands had influenza. The outbreaks skipped across the map from Florida to Missouri and Illinois, over the Continental Divide to the southwestern mountain states, and up the Pacific Coast to remote island villages in Alaska...