Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, who has changed from a young smalltown editor with a plumber's haircut into a classy-cut newspaper hero. No constructive legislator, he has made the Campaign Expenditures Committee, the chair of which fell to him by accident, into a vehicle for constant personal publicity. Married, he likes to dance in his off hours...
Lynn Joseph Frazier of North Dakota, whose head is the shiniest and baldest in the Senate. Out of that head came the startling proposal to abolish war by constitutional amendment...
Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, who drills water wells for an occupation and supports the White House only when it means patronage for his state...
...skeleton, almost complete, was collected in 1928 in the Big White River Badlands, Washington County, South Dakota. It was found in the upper concretionary formation which lies in the upper middle Oreodon zone and has a sufficient number of peculiar characteristics to be deserving of a new specific name...
Coyote. Flying low over a South Dakota prairie with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...