Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111. In mid-March he stood south again until he hit the Roaring Forties, off the southwest tip of the continent. There he simply "put in three reefs and set course east...
...comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces and aluminum plants, with auxiliary industries proliferating...
...judgment kept John Charles Fremont from becoming one of the authentic giants of U.S. history. His behavior in California during the Mexican War led to court-martial for mutiny, disobedience and conduct prejudicial to order, and his resignation from the Army. His search for a railroad route through the Southwest ended in disaster because he would not listen to men who knew better than he did the dangers of midwinter in the mountains. He was the first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother to campaign actively, and he lost to James...
...dentists in the U.S., or one for every 1,667 persons, the American Dental Association reported. Biggest trouble: the supply does not fill the right cavities. There is only one dentist for every 3,076 residents in the Southeast, one for every 2,962 in the Southwest, whereas New York...
...With farms 93% electrified, with capital costs high, with a standard of living that reaches as high as television, big cars, fur stoles, and college educations for the children, farmers do not find it easy to reduce their standards as Anderson has done. Said a farmer in Corning, in southwest Iowa: "I was just looking at the month's electric bill- $30. Why that's what I used to make in a month as a hired hand back in 1939. And my wife goes down and buys two lamps and puts 100-watt bulbs in them...