Word: southwesterner
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...southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
...with no idea of retiring. Backed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the second generation of Harrimans, he began planning a big system in the Southwest, another system to connect his Kansas City Southern and D. & H. In 1927 the Interstate Commerce Commission turned thumbs down on his Southwestern plan, holding that K. C. S. was too small a base for a financial pyramid...
...dropped his Southwestern plan and concentrated on the East. In 1927 he mortgaged D. & H. coal properties for $35,000,000 and began to buy into small Eastern key roads, planning to build and piece together a new trunkline to the Midwest. This plan the I. C. C. blocked with its first consolidation plan, parceling out the East among the "Big Four," taking no account of Mr. Loree...
...Bristol, Va., Dr. John Preston Mc Connell, 66, president of East Radford, Va.'s State Teachers College, rose to address some 100 male & female colleagues of Southwestern Virginia, Inc., of which also he is president. Suddenly his trousers dropped, bunched about his knees. Cool, Dr. McConnell pulled them up, declared: "I'm indeed glad this happened. It has put everybody in a good mood...
...distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as Japanese beetles and gypsy moths, and eating them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with bristles. Entomologist Shannon's find, enthused...