Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's seven major dailies since 1940. Under the guns of Los Angeles' four dailies, 30 suburban and small-town papers share more than 700,000 circulation; in West Covina. only 20 miles from the Los Angeles Times building, the three-year-old San Gabriel Valley Tribune (circ. 30,195) last week published a paper of 78 pages-only two pages smaller than the mighty Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into...
...moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent by the U.S. and the Duquesne Light Co. on the Ohio Valley plant, the nation's sluggish private atomic energy program will show its first practical results...
Compared to coal-driven plants in the Ohio Valley, which sell electricity at a rock-bottom 4 mills per kwr-h, or the national average of 7 to 8 mills. Shippingport power will cost as much as 65 mills per kw-h because of the high construction cost. Duquesne will tap the power only in peak-load periods...
...political columns last winter, casting lonesome Republican Harold Stassen, 50, 'as a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1958 (he served three terms as governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1945). U.S. Disarmament Adviser Stassen demurely maintained a no-comment attitude, but bought a piece of property near Valley Forge...
...poor and melancholy," Santayana wrote, "as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." American painters in general have turned not to themselves but to the nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook and cavalryman. Grant Wood said that all his best ideas "came while milking...