Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company prospered, but Oppenheimer was not content with gold. He liked diamonds. He spotted the possibilities in Southwest African fields captured from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
...happened? From musty records, school officials found that Mayo Buckner was brought in to the state school by his mother in October 1898. (It was snowing, Buck remembers, and the train they rode from Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because...
...owners acted in executive session after completing the league's partial draft session. The Southwest Conference produced the two top choices in the draft when the Chicago Cardinals selected King Hill, standout Rice quarterback, and big John Crow, power running fullback of Texas...
Still to come in the Senate are more problems for Kennedy. The natural-gas bill is coming up again, and it is considered a must in the Southwest; Kennedy voted against it once, is prepared to do so again. Restrictive labor legislation is in the works; Kennedy, a member of the labor-investigating McClellan committee, of which brother Bob is chief counsel, is against any such harsh measure as a federal right-to-work law, but probably would support corrective legislation, e.g., a tightening up, with punitive clauses, on the accounting of union pension and welfare funds. Extension of reciprocal...
...will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration and development by people who do not have milling contracts. If you have no mill, you have no market. If you have no market, you have no reason to hunt for uranium...