Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imports are discouraging exploration for new U.S. oil resources, thus threaten national security. ¶ Attended, with Mamie, a dedication ceremony opening the new $1,250,000 Islamic Center and Mosque on Massachusetts Avenue (see RELIGION). ¶ Nominated, for a nine-year term as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Arnold R. Jones, 53, of Manhattan, Kans. Republican Jones, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget since April 1956, is on leave from Kansas State College, where .Ike's brother Milton (then Kansas State president) hired him as controller in 1945. Jones will give Republicans a majority...
Hurricane Audrey swept on north, at some 35 miles an hour, carrying winds up to 80 miles an hour. It drenched and stirred up twisters through the Ohio River Valley, crashed lustily through western Pennsylvania and New York and jaded out in Canada. But in Cameron the bodies were still being stacked in the ice house, with about 350 dead in the area and uncounted others floating out to sea in Audrey's sullen...
...seven stories of her new book, Yorkshirewoman Bentley brings off a considerable literary feat by exploring her region in time: the first story is set in 1350, the last in 1950. Place names echo and re-echo-Annotsfield, Whindale, the Ire Valley-as do the names of people: Brigg, Egmont, Resmond. Novelist Bentley succeeds in showing, as she sets out to do, that Yorkshire's West Ridinghood is persistent in the character of the tykes -whether they wield bows, shuttles or hymnbooks...
...yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...