Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite, southwest of Manila, where pro-Magsaysay policemen shot up a small band of gun-toting Quirino supporters...
...fully documented: Baylor University's football team, made up of a jumbo line and backfield of brilliant performers, was unbeaten in six games, rated No. 3 in the whole U.S. Baptist Baylor, the experts agreed, had its finest chance in 29 years to win the championship of the Southwest Conference. Texas U. buffs were not dismayed. They passed the word: "Get out the red candles...
Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio...
...drought is having an economic impact that reaches far beyond the farm. Throughout southwest Missouri, farm-implement sales have dwindled, sales of cars, television and radio sets have almost stopped. Every line of business has felt the slump...
Although the cattle population of 94 million is the greatest in U.S. history, there were few signs of overproduction, and there were no demands for price supports until the drought in the Southwest forced ranchers to dump their cattle on the market and collapse prices...