Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...strong southwest wind made playing conditions almost impossible as the team against the gale invariably had to go on the defensive. Several times, a player would get a good kick off into the wind, only to watch it come to a dead stop in mid air and fall about ten feet from where it was kicked...
Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
Cleaning Up. Republic has lent $1 billion to finance oil drilling, more than any Southwest bank. Florence was a chief mover in bringing Temco Aircraft to Dallas, which in turn helped persuade Chance-Vought to come. He also helped organize Lone Star Steel Co., biggest in Texas. Partly to persuade big Texas borrowers that it was no longer necessary to go to New York, Florence gave Republic the most impressive face in Dallas-a $25 million, 40-story building sheathed in aluminum. The skyscraper has acted as a magnet to bring Dallas such other structures as the new Hotel Statler...
Granite City is fortunate in its location and its customers. Chiefly a producer of flat-rolled steel products for everything from cans to cars, it is the biggest steelmaker in the St. Louis area, enjoys favorable barge and rail rates to the booming South and Southwest. Furthermore, it has no single customer who takes as much as 10% of its output. Granite City owes its prosperity even more to a forward-looking $33 million expansion program that has already hiked its capacity 47% and slashed the per-ton cost of annual ingot capacity. Now producing at an annual rate...