Word: dak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salem, S. Dak...
...Morse G. (for Grant) Dial, 56, was boosted from executive vice president to president of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Fred H. Haggerson, 68, who was both president and chairman, will continue as board chairman. Reared in Fargo, N. Dak., Dial graduated from Cornell, worked for the Brownville Board Co. before joining Union Carbide in 1929 as a sales supervisor. Later, as manager of the Vinylite divisions, he helped make Union Carbide the world's largest producer of plastics...
Running as much as ten feet over flood stage, and ten miles wide in stretches, the muddy Missouri surged through the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska, leaving thousands homeless, more than 1,000,000 acres of farm land inundated, millions of dollars in damage. Whole sections of Pierre, S. Dak. were swamped as the river crashed through the flood walls. Power went out, and with it the city's pumping system, leaving a shortage of drinking water...
Cylinder Head. Near Webster, S. Dak., after his radiator hose broke and let all the water out, beer-truck driver Henry Becht repaired the coupling, poured in 21 bottles of his load, foamed along...
...situation in the Mingusville, S. Dak. saloon, that night in 1885, seemed to be stacked against the spectacled dude from the East. A Bad Lands drunkard who had just put a couple of holes in the clock over the bar waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four...