Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their loads if they were to proceed. For the shippers the lightening was time-consuming and expensive (up to $1,000,000 a month...
...second. Reason for the limitation: by diverting larger amounts in the past (claimed the Great Lakes group), Chicago had reduced the lakes' water level to a point harmful to lake shipping. The court's new decree, answering an Illinois petition backed by seven other Mississippi Valley states and actively opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland...
After a quiet six-week respite in a cozy Sun Valley chalet (owner: New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman), pretty Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 33. second wife of Millionaire Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, won a divorce on the technical ground of "extreme mental cruelty." During the last fortnight of her legalistic Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked...
...mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion) Art Larsen, 31, in Castro Valley, Calif., partially paralyzed and blind in one eye after a motor scooter accident last month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet his $100-a-day medical bills.) Meanwhile, another tennistar, World Champion Pro Poncho Gonzales...
...describing himself as a "sailor on horseback"-a quality both lovable and exasperating. He called himself a socialist (though no known socialist state would have given him leg room). When his books did well, he built himself a thoroughly unsocialist, ranch-style castle in California's Valley of the Moon (it burned down before he could move in). He died at 40, probably a suicide during a fit of depression...