Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean diapers a day." The hospital operates on a meager budget of $6,000 a year, and the great need, says Dr. Crane, is toys. Toys of any kind-old, fancy or plain -for the youngsters who have seen so little color and happiness in the bare hills of southwest Korea...
...desert below exploded into noonday brilliance. For five miles around, acres of Joshua trees, cactus and sagebrush burst into flame. A sturdy frame house ten miles from the explosion collapsed. In San Francisco, 600 miles to the west, people saw the incandescent flash; in Pasadena, 250 miles southwest, they heard the explosion as a rumble in the distance...
...mills and smelters to process ore from the company's worldwide network of mines. Electric furnaces will manufacture pig iron and steel, fed with iron ore from Ventures' mines on Vancouver Island, chrome from a Ventures property in the Transvaal, cobalt from New Caledonia and manganese from Southwest Africa. Another plant will manufacture aluminum. Lead and nickel from Ventures' Canadian mines will be processed on the site. A new, deep-sea port near by will enable ships to deliver ore and carry away finished metals all year round...
...strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik's chief rival, 43-year-old Barrister Obafemi Awolowo. Usually Zik and Awolowo fight each other, but when they got together in support of independence by 1956, the two-sided...
Britain claimed a new jet altitude record last week: 63,668 ft. over southwest England. The plane was a Canberra bomber with two Bristol Olympus turbojet engines, piloted by R.A.F. Wing Commander Walter F. Gibb...