Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns without smoke, is clean to handle. Mined in the U. S. in North and South Dakota and Texas, it is useful in domestic furnaces, or as pulverized fuel in manufacturing plants...
Yale, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Notre Dame, Stanford...
Straws show which way the wind blows. But when a strawstack is an indicator it tells tales of a wind that is blowing near hurricane strength. Last week 37 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana,?37 banks with over $350.000,000 of assets?were the strawstack at which the Northwest cocked an admiring eye. For the 3 7 banks were united in a great bank chain, headed by the First National banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis...
...picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota...
...talk on "Cooperation of Governors on Crime Problems." Maine's Gov. William Tudor Gardiner was to speak on "Employment of Prisoners," Carolina's Gov. Oliver Max Gardner on "Youthful Prisoners," Virginia's Gov. Harry Flood Byrd on "The Segregation Plan of Taxation" and North Dakota's Gov. George F. Shafer on "The Gasoline Tax." It looked like poor pickings for newsmen assigned to cover the conference...