Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast-moving Montgomery Ward still has some laps to travel before catching its main rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Reported Sears last week: 1956 sales totaled $3,555,684,148, for a jump of 7.5% in the year, and earnings were $164,816,293. Significantly, noted Sears, "increased competition in our field" lowered after-tax net to 4.6% of sales...
...Senate Judiciary subcommittee ordered a check last Thursday to see whether William Worthy, the Nieman fellow who recently defied a State Department ban on travel in Red China, is the same William Worthy who twelve years ago was accused of violating the draft...
Between commercials, the airline and travel-agency plugs and the ejaculations of the transmitter, Godfrey occasionally described an average day. Viewers could look at a map of Africa on their TV screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
...three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud and Edjeleéé to the rail terminal at Touggourt in the northeast Sahara. From there the oil would travel 338 miles by train to the Mediterranean at Philippeville, Algeria. By 1960 Lemaire hopes to increase production to 70 million bbl. from reserves that are estimated at more than 7 billion bbl. To do it, the Cabinet also okayed his plan to sink 350 more wells. Another major problem...
...short story, like a baseball pitch, either goes over the plate or misses. Most of promising young (32) Author Kentfield's stories go right over the plate. But he is more to be praised for control than change of pace, for most of his tales travel the arc of boy-into...