Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois' Freshman Paul Douglas led a band of Northern and Eastern Senators in the attack. Said Douglas: "So great is the demand for natural gas . . . that pipelines are being laid frantically down into the Southwest. In the past two years more than 18,000 miles of pipeline have been authorized. Natural gas will shortly pour into the North Atlantic and New England states and into the states of the South Atlantic and Middle West. It is a seller's market and the big gas and oilmen are riding high...
...that the Irish-even in the U.S.-had hardly been able to get in a word of protest against England. But last month, New York's Irish-born Mayor William O'Dwyer got some stirring intelligence from home: Sir Basil Brooke, the British Prime Minister of partitioned Northern Ireland, had 1) banned Saint Patrick's Day parades among his constituents, and 2) announced that he would soon visit...
...midst of last week's irascible squabbling over ECA, he reproposed an amendment which had been cold-shouldered when he thought it up last year. Fogarty wanted the U.S. to withhold Britain's $687,100,000 share of ECA dollars until the Redcoats got out of Northern Ireland. Last week Congressmen with Irish names, and others who were only looking for a chance to embarrass the Administration, suddenly and whimsically leaped aboard Fogarty's dream boat. After being assured that they could duck out again whenever they wanted, they voted...
From Yucatan came news that a large aluminum disc had been seen whizzing by at an altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...
...crucifix fish, a variety of sea catfish, whose skull bones form a crucifix. 3) As camouflage against enemies. 4) In a small area of northern Michigan...