Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...Quezon, widow of the Philippines' first President, was assassinated by the Communist-led Huks* last spring. For miles the road was deserted. Stray pieces of rotting cloth and bullet-ridden luggage still mark the site of the ambush. Soldiers for our party, clutching their carbines, fanned out to survey the scene; one flushed a parrot from a high fern. "I knew three of the dead," said their lieutenant, and idly fired four rounds of ammunition at a towering lawan tree. "In memory of Mrs. Quezon and my three friends," he explained, as two orchid blossoms fluttered down...
...band of farsighted Nutmeggers had plans for that territory. For $1,200,000 they bought title to these 3,000,000-plus acres of Ohio land from the state.* Then, in 1796, they sent a survey party, led by burly, action-loving General Moses Cleaveland, into the wilderness to inspect the prize...
...onetime cowboy, who left school after the sixth grade, Keener picked up his basic engineering in survey work for the Colorado Power Co., in 1934 founded his own company. From one employee, it grew during World War II, when Keener built ammunition plants, to 800 men, has netted Keener a tidy personal fortune...
...sets in Videotown are owned by families in the middle or lower income brackets. But the customers were hunting lower prices and bigger screens, and they were not particular about makes. Two manufacturers who had 60% of Videotown's sales at the start of the survey failed to keep pace with the big screen-cheaper set demand. Result: this year their share...