Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been taking their ways, according to a Census Bureau report issued last week. During the years 1950-58, while the total U.S. population was increasing 15%, the population of the Western states soared 29%, paced by lonely Nevada's dizzying 70% (to 272,000) and wide-open-spaced Arizona's 57% (to 1.2 million). California, having overtaken Pennsylvania back in 1950 to become the U.S.'s second most populous state, grew another 35% in 1950-58, from 10.6 million to 14.3 million. Over the same span, New York's population increased only 10%, from 14.8 million...
Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first...
...mushrooms in a meadow. This week Johnson, already proclaimed a candidate by Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, let his true love show, saddled up for a fast political shivaree in four nearby states. Quipped a Dallas wag: "He's just campaigning for re-election in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Arizona...
...found art societies and institutes sprouting in towns that once would have been hard pressed to support a framing shop. Phoenix itself started modestly enough when, in 1915, the Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only to find Phoenix citizens willing to contribute less than a third of the $1,000,000 required for the buildings...
...widespread network of magnetometers, enlisted the help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid out by running a single wire along the ground in a loop 50 miles in diameter. In the U.S., one was set up in the open desert in Arizona, another in a sprawling New Jersey state forest, a third in the Maine woods. Last week, after laborious analysis and collation of recordings received by each station in the far-flung network, Dr. Bomke reported what they had found...