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...GERALD TOMORY Bloomington...
...plague spreads, even though many Middle Western cities, where elms are the most common and sometimes the only shade trees, have demonstrated that the two-part program works well. Chicago, which destroyed diseased trees and sprayed too, lost only 0.7% of its elms last year; Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, where no systematic effort was made, lost 95% of their elms...
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...CITY WITH YOUNGEST CITIZENS : Bloomington, a Minneapolis suburb, which has so many babies that the median age is an incredible 19.6 years...
...county farm bureau building. As business increased, the company put up its own office building, but soon overflowed that into a funeral parlor, a ballroom and a warehouse. At one point, operations were so scattered that Mecherle hired the members of a roller derby that had gone broke in Bloomington and set them to delivering interoffice mail on roller skates. For years afterward, State Farm personnel applications included the question: "Do you roller-skate, and how well...