Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam-minded...
...record of Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier of North Dakota is as follows...
...following residents of North Dakota and readers of TIME would greatly appreciate your publishing a review of the congressional career of Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota...
...Punishment? The Press carried practically no reports of drought conditions in the Dakotas because the Dakotas no longer had any crops to lose. Yet one of the most talked of articles of the day concerned this new U. S. Sahara and appeared last fortnight in the Saturday Evening Post. Not sensational, it was a piece of excellent reporting by Morris Markey. He began: ''This is written from a small town in South Dakota. ... It has not rained in this town for eleven months. . . . In every direction the fields go off to the horizon, brown and full of dust...
...National Geographic Society, the stratonauts planned not only to break the world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with 210,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema...