Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...
...days, Crisp toasted on the spot. Not only had Alabama completely segregated itself from victory on the football field-it also needed new talent to replace its graduating 1956 Southeastern Conference basketball champions. Blatant signs of unrest such as this were certain to hurt the university's high-pressure recruiting campaign...
Although the Crimson Tide of Alabama has ebbed to its lowest point in history on the football field (10 games, 10 losses in 1955), the university is still generous enough with its "grants in aid" to athletes to earn 1) a frown from the Southeastern Conference and 2) the services of more than 100 young men of brawn and promise. In return for the free education it gives them, most of the Alabama football, basketball and baseball players live a life apart in their own dormitory. Friedman Hall, and are regulated stiffly as to bedtime and weekend privileges, allowed little...
Down from the snow-covered Rockies shrieked a chill gale one day last week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
...businessmen will keep building for future markets without letup. Merely to keep pace, industry will lay out a record sum for new plants and equipment in 1956. The forecast: $33 billion, $5 billion more than in 1955. Example: the Southern Co., which controls utility companies in four Southeastern states, will pour $220 million into 88 new power projects...