Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That same day, three hours before noon, three great, grey ships stood inshore off the east coast of Honshu, 275 miles north of Tokyo. They were the Massachusetts, South Dakota and Indiana; running in tight formation with them were the heavy cruisers Chicago and Quincy (both named for ships sunk at Guadalcanal), while a dozen destroyers scudded around them. Promptly at noon, the big guns began to speak...
...North Dakota Agricultural College is working on a plan to require four-year vocational students to attend an extra year so that they can study more liberal-arts courses...
...Ryukyu Islands since early April. Fairwing 1, under veteran seaplaner Rear Admiral John Dale Price, has sunk or damaged more than 200,000 tons of shipping in Korean waters. Fairwing 18, skippered by Rear Admiral Marshall Raymond Greer (onetime shipmate of Price in the old battleship North Dakota), has operated farther east, where the hunting was not so good, but sometimes it has flown over into Fairwing 1's territory to help...
...Senate put the timid delegates to shame. Unanimously they adopted resolutions urging U.S. participation in a permanent "international educational and cultural organization." Reassured, the U.S. delegation promptly took steps to restore the original provision to the charter. If it is shaped to the wishes of its House sponsor, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the international organization will 1) help re-establish education in devastated countries, 2) advise on the re-education of the enemy, 3) promote exchange of students, teachers, materials, methods, 4) avoid propaganda and direct control of schools...
...South Dakota ex-schoolteacher last week perched on one of the highest roosts in the newsman's aviary: night city editor of the Chicago Daily News, fourth largest afternoon paper in the U.S. Her daily job, from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m.: to put the News's first edition...