Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
...have held that view for a long time." He said that in general, as American and British cultures drift inevitably apart, there is no sense in trying to impose a foreign culture upon this country. He asked, "What does Wordsworth mean to a high school boy in South Dakota...
...strongly worded letter to Representative Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota, member of the House committee and a personal friend of the astronomer, he urged that Rankin's activities be "abated or completely abolished...
Moreover, three states-Arizona, Nebraska and South Dakota-had voted constitutional amendments to bar the closed shop. Labor-strong Massachusetts had approved a "union responsibility" referendum, requiring unions to make public financial reports of dues, officers' salaries, fees, etc. The public's attitude was unmistakable: it had had enough of labor recklessness and abuses of its rights, and enough of inflation-puffing strikes. It had, in effect, voted out a pro-labor Government and voted in one which it hoped would hold labor as responsible as management...
Makeup of this issue is the job of Jay Odell who prepped for the job as swing man on the desk of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Political analyst of the Crimson today is Gilbert W. Stewart who comes from North Dakota via the Washington bureau of Newsweek where he was, strangely enough, a political analyst...