Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
...candidates are favored to displace four Republicans, which would give the elder party a 49 to 47 majority in the next Upper House. But the GOP may be able to keep Senate control by unseating Democrats in turn. In five states where Democrats are wobbly--Tennessee, New Mexico, Montans, Colorado, and Texas--the Republicans are desperately pouring in funds and slick campaign speakers...
...Mexico, former Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson has only a narrow estimated lead over Republican candidate Patrick Hurley. Elsewhere in the West, Democratic Senators Ed Johnson and James Murray are having tough battles in Colorado and Montana against polished and wellheeled opponents...
...Tree. But the real inventory problem was not in industry but on the farms-and in those products not supported by the Government. Near Palisade, Colorado, bronzed Harold Motz looked over his 15 acres of peach trees, complained: "I'm losing money for the first time since 1932." Motz had picked all his peaches, but "a lot of the boys," he said, "just left them on the tree. They just didn't sell well." In the rich San Luis Valley, farmers estimated that a quarter of a million crates of lettuce and 70,000 tons of cabbage...
Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming...