Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry. But, according to State, those U.S. enterprises have not really been hurt by lower tariffs. Cattlemen, for example, complained that during 1936 a shipment of Canadian cattle had depressed the Minneapolis market. State countered that large cattle shipments frequently depress markets, locally and temporarily; a shipment from South Dakota might have had the same effect...
Died. Lynn Joseph Frazier, 72, onetime front man for North Dakota's Non-Partisan League of agrarian radicals, North Dakota governor (1916-21), three-time U.S. Senator (1922-40), co-author of the Frazier-Lemke Bills for farm relief; after long illness; in Maryland...
Blaming the wind more than any near zero temperatures for early winter discomfort, husky Paul Ducharme, third term business school student from North Dakota has covered every conceivable cranny in his apartment with weather-stripping. "We're accustomed to cold weather," Ducharme said. "I remember back home when it was 50 below and the wind blew at 40 miles per hour...
...quixotic tilt with the Rhodes Scholar "conspiracy," the Patterson McCormick papers might well point to Associate Professor John W. Fairbank of the History Department, as an example of American Youth subverted by these foreign scholarships. For tall, thoughtful Professor Fairbank, after the good start of being born in South Dakota in 1907, led a clean-cut life till his second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times" book review...
...flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather obscured his approach to the Jungfrau. "Then," said an aide, "it was as if the Lord pushed the clouds away for a few moments." Through a rift they spotted the stricken Dakota, cushioned in the snow. Medical supplies, brandy and food were dropped near a red flag laid out on the glacier. In the next 24 hours, so many packages were dropped that a Swiss plane asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier...