Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different from Ruppel as a summer breeze is from a roaring tornado, Dakin had a good record at the Companion, where he sparked the magazine's public-service articles, one of the most popular features the Companion has ever run. Born in Gloucester, Mass., Dakin went to the Companion after years on the New York Telegram, the New York Daily News (where he scored a famed beat in 1936 with Cinemactress Mary Astor's diary during a court fight over custody of her child), and PM, where he ran the "News for Living." At Collier's, Dakin...
Close the Schools. Except for a new "Hopalong Hildegarde" number which she did in a red sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
Last week North American Aviation, Inc. announced that it had licked the problem by fitting its four-jet B45 Tornado with new-type bomb-bay doors. Instead of swinging open, they slide into the plane like overhead garage doors. The falling bombs hit a smoothly flowing airstream instead of the uneven eddies stirred up by the old-style doors. Even above 500 m.p.h., all the bombs fall alike, a necessity for good marksmanship...
...decision should not have been a surprise, since the Supreme Court had handed down a similar ruling against the state of California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more than 100 years to its days as an independent republic. Raged San Antonio Oilman Fred W. Shield: "It is absolutely a steal from the state of Texas...
Testing. In Ada, Okla., a farmer and his family went down to try out the comforts of their newly completed storm cellar, emerged an hour later to find that a tornado had swept away their house, barn, outbuildings...