Word: dak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bismarck, N. Dak...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend a farmers' picnic at Brookings, S. Dak., to make a ten-day inspection tour of agricultural experiment stations and grasshopper control projects. But though he gaily turned his back on the brief tempest which had brewed over him at the Capitol...
...Cleveland, Ohio; Edward P. Davis, Jr., of St. Paul, Minn.; Albert B. Dearden of Teaneck, N. J.; Neston S. Foley of Somerville, Mass.; Sydney S. Gellis of Clarmont, N. H.; Alan Ginsburg of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Richard M. Goodwin of Newcastle, Ind.; George Gore of Rapid City, S. Dak.; John N. M. Howells of Kittery Point, Me.; Gove G. Johnson, Jr., of Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Kerr of Cambridge Mass. Howard M. Lawn of Long Branch, N. J. Carl H. Levy of Cincinnati, Ohio; Tom Lilley of Bluefield, W. V., Alfred B. Lord...
Down upon a good third of the U. S. poured a blistering sun last week, broiling, baking, burning an area from Wisconsin to New Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed...
Last week the Army and the airmail finally parted ways when the last route (Chicago-Pembina, N. Dak.) was taken over by Hanford Tri-State Air Lines. Meanwhile in Washington Congress was putting the finishing touches to the new Air Mail Law before sending it on to the White House. The act establishes a 6? airmail postage rate, provides one-year mail contracts with rates to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (maximum 40? per airplane mile), prohibits interlocking directorates and holding companies, limits each contractor to one primary and two secondary routes, permits carriers whose contracts were canceled...