Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Pfc. Matthew C. McKeon, broken from staff sergeant for leading six Parris Island boots to their drowning in a disciplinary night march (TIME, April 23, Aug. 13, 1956), was voted "Marine of the Month" by his present outfit, the 114th All Weather Fighter Squadron...
...Debt Pyramid. At first, Menderes' development program had nothing but happy results. Acreage under cultivation doubled. In 1953, when good weather gave it the biggest wheat crop in history -8,200,000 tons v. 3,800,000 in 1950-Turkey became for the first time a substantial exporter of wheat. The once arid Anatolian plateau was dotted with green fields and bustling communities, and the cotton-producing areas of southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish...
...About East Cupcake?" The weather clouded, and travelers brought tales that Jack Paar's Tonight show, on location at a Miami Beach hotel, was laying eggs in a heavy downpour. Little crises piled up. Slight (130 Ibs.) Actor Don Knotts, who plays the nervous type in Allen's "Man in the Street" feature, passed out in the coffee shop; flown down from the U.S., his doctor diagnosed "nervous exhaustion." Bearded Orchestra Leader Skitch Henderson created consternation at Havana's CMQ when he turned up in sweater and denims resembling a Cuban revolutionary's getup...
Aeroflot pilots, though experienced, have won a daredevil reputation for going up in bird-walking weather. This can make for tough and treacherous travel, since they fly without electronic navigation aids in the back-country areas where airports are not equipped for instrument landings. What kind of safety record they have, no Westerner knows; Aeroflot does not announce crashes unless foreigners are on board. But there have been three crashes in the past three months alone that took 30 lives...
...Weather Bureau warned early this morning that the Charles River was rising and already overflowing at certain points. Precautions against flood conditions were taken after a two-day storm lashed New England...