Word: popped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rams. Thanks solely to such private contributions, Tecnológico last week was setting the pace for Monterrey, Mexico's fastest growing (pop. 280,000) industrial center (steel, glass, paint). On the tree-shaded, 148-acre campus, some of the 1,365 students were settling down in a new dormitory designed in the modern style of the school's eight other buildings. Between classes, blue-sweatered members of the Borregos (Rams), Tecnológico's U.S.-style football team, watched builders at work on a stadium that will eventually seat 45,000. In the 20,000-volume...
...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
...Greatest Threat. Chiang would try to fight on from Formosa, though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic island. Actually, Formosa (the size of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, pop. 7,200,000) could be a strong redoubt; it is one of Asia's most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...
Before he began his revolution, just 25 years ago, "W.P." was school superintendent of Fornfelt, Mo. (pop. 1,200). Then one day he heard that the school board was considering somebody else for the job. Face to face with politics, Waldo Johnson resigned...
Near the little (pop. 1,500) mountain town of Rifle, Colo, last week, a five-year-old federal experiment reached an exciting climax. The Bureau of Mines announced that in its test plant it had produced oil from oil shale at a cost of $2 to $2.50 a barrel, comparable to the cost of petroleum pumped from the ground in east Texas. "We're over the hill now," crowed Plant Superintendent Boyd Guthrie. "We have the processes and the know-how . . . We're positive we can produce equal or better products than you can get from petroleum...