Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where U.S. Highway 75 broadens into Main Street, there is Sioux Center, Iowa. Sioux Center is a Corn Belt town of 2,000 people. Of a Saturday evening, shiny new Fords and Plymouths, parked at an angle to the curb, line both sides of the street. Back from the broad sidewalks, the one-story frame and brick buildings house a pair of hash-houses, a Rexall drugstore, a Chevrolet agency, Dejong's Hatchery. There are no traffic lights...
From the city there were white gauntlets and a white doeskin jacket; from the Glencoe Club a leather belt with solid gold buckle, and elkskin riding boots. The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede tossed in a Hudson's Bay blanket coat, a pair of Point blankets, a white felt hat and a pair of white whipcord riding breeches. Barbara Ann dressed up in her cowgirl clothes (see cut), posed happily for Calgarians. Said she: "I have always wanted a cowgirl outfit for my very own and I have always wanted to see a real live Indian...
...field hands once sang the song in the flat Mississippi Valley fields where the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...
Like many another once bankrupt railroad, the Cotton Belt had found solvency in the war boom. The Southern Pacific Co., which owns 87% of the Cotton Belt stock, helped out by taking over the Cotton Belt's $18 million loan from RFC. But shippers along the railroad's wandering right of way gave a good deal of the credit for the comeback to the Cotton Belt's 70-year-old president, stubby, white-haired Frederick William Green...
...Green got his first railroad job as a messenger for the Exposition railroad at the 1893 World's Fair. He worked on three other roads before he climbed aboard the Cotton Belt in 1916 as assistant to the president. In World War I he took time out to run the railroad yards at Brest and St. Nazaire as a lieutenant colo- nel. Back at the Cotton Belt, hardworking Railroader Green, who has a rare taste for mathematics, could soon recite the Cotton Belt's revenue figures, for any month or year, down to the last decimal. Green...