Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northwest coast of Australia is one of the most desolate spots on earth. The nearest city of any size is Perth (pop. 376,000), some 1,450 miles to the south; mosquitoes and crocodiles infest the mangrove swamps; 12-ft. sharks cruise the lonely bays. In that unfriendly land, at remote Kuri Bay, a syndicate of Australians, Americans and Japanese called Pearls Proprietary Ltd. is turning out a product that has the world's jewelers agog. The product: fabulous pearls as big across as a 25-cent piece, of gem quality so fine that a Manhattan jeweler recently sold...
...partner in the big Melbourne importing firm of Brown & Bureau. Three years ago he formed a syndicate with a U.S. businessman, an Australian pearler, and asked Japanese Culture Pearl Expert Tokuichi Kuribayashi, president of Tokyo's Nippo Pearl Co. Ltd., to join them in growing pearls in the northwest...
With Thanksgiving just weeks away, Arthur Flemming last Monday gave cranberry growers the short end of the wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on the safe side," Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, advised America's housewives not to buy any cranberries until extensive testing had been completed...
...North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...
...North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...