Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...productive and gracious economy of Hawaii was paralyzed last week; its territorial government was powerless to act. Most of Hawaii's 540,000 residents were seething inside like old Kilauea, the volcano with the pit of eternal fire. It was the eighth week of a strike by 2,000 members of Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, C.I.O...
Inactive since 1933 and unsealed for years, Colombia's snow-capped Purace Volcano seemed just the place for an adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
From the long-quiet crater a column of fire and molten rock gushed 2,500 feet into the sky. Boiling lava poured down the volcano's sides. As the two laggards fled, they saw their companions frantically trying to escape from the path of the fiery lava streaming toward them. Then a big mushroom-shaped cloud settled over the summit...
Purace's tantrum was soon over. On the volcano's slopes next day, rescue crews found nine of the 17 bodies. The others had been buried deep under the lava...
...weeks Nicaragua's foxy, folksy Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza toured his volcano-studded domain. Ostensibly, he was inspecting his Atlantic Highway (not yet completed) and the villages and towns along the Atlantic coast. Actually he was giving his local jejes (leaders) the word on 1951's presidential election. Tacho, who was President from 1937 to 1947, would like to be President again in name as well as in fact...