Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broken Lance (20th Century-Fox) takes the cinemagoer to the Old Southwest, where Cattle Baron Spencer Tracy, a likable old tyrant, has plenty of beef on the range and plenty of stewing at home. For one thing, his three eldest sons (by a first marriage) resent having to work for their tough old man; further, like almost everybody else in the area, they resent Tracy's second wife, a loving, stoical, full-blooded Indian princess (Katy Jurado). and their half-breed brother (Robert Wagner), who is also papa...
...Senator Moody), reckoned one of the U.S.'s ten richest men (estimated total assets: $400 million) of pneumonia; in Galveston, Texas. Gracious, publicity-shy Financier Moody controlled vast tracts of Texas land (including Galveston Island, which flourished for years as the gambling mecca of the Southwest) and such miscellaneous enterprises as the $364 million American National Insurance Co.,33 hotels and tourist courts, two banks, both Galveston newspapers, eleven ranches...
Hurricane Alice, first of the 1954 season, was gentle as hurricanes go. She barely reached hurricane velocity (80 m.p.h.), and the blow did little damage other than beaching a few shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico. But when she moved inland over parched southwest Texas, her humid clouds cascaded rain in torrents never before recorded. On eroded land, where 1 in. of rain can mean a flash flood, as much as 22 in. fell last week. It was disaster...
General Liu Po-cheng, battle-scarred, one-eyed "liberator" of Tibet, chairman of the Southwest area and commander of the second field army...
Congressmen from the Southwest last week talked about a new law that would take the Government out of the gas-regulating business, such as the Kerr natural-gas bill, which was vetoed by Harry Truman in 1950. The chances of getting such a law through this session are slim, since legislators from gas-consuming states would oppose it in an election year. But oil-and-gas men think that consumers may feel differently if there are gas shortages...