Word: tacoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Brannan told 200 newspaper editors assembled in Boulder, Colo.: "You can't produce prosperity through scarcity, but it looks as if the present Administration is going to try it." ¶ Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, off on a twelve-day speaking tour through the West, said in Tacoma, Wash, that by helping elect a "giveaway" Government in November, independents who voted Republican had "helped to turn the clock back to Hoover." ¶ An unofficial party auxiliary, the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, reported that it was keeping a record of how much time Dwight Eisenhower spends golfing and fishing...
...Voorhees insisted on publishing a book called Korean Tales, in which he rapped both the military brass and the press for what he thought were their shortcomings in Korea. As a result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges of: 1) failing to clear the book with the Army, 2) "willfully disobeying" a superior who had ordered him to withdraw the manuscript (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week, after two weeks of testimony, Reservist Voorhees was found guilty on both major counts...
...mysterious disease which starts like a common cold but kills its infant victims within hours was worrying doctors and parents in Tacoma, Wash. The sixth victim, three-month-old David Le Fever, was found to have died of double-edged pneumonia: simultaneous virus and pneumococcus infections...
...transport was nine hours out of Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thanksgiving night when Captain Albert J. Fenton raised Tacoma's McChord Field. What was the weather? The answer crackled back: visibility three-quarters of a mile, ceiling zero. Pilot Fenton asked to be talked in on ground controlled approach...
Fifteen minutes later, when Fenton swung into his final approach, visibility had dropped to one-sixteenth of a mile, a blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...