Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star performer was Paul Bellamy, a bull-necked businessman who represented no city, but the bleak Black Hills of South Dakota, where men are men and steaks are three inches thick. When he described the latter, Yugoslavia's gaunt, grey Stoyan Gavrilovic, the UNO subcommittee chairman, was visibly affected...
There is some kidding because Mr. Coen has been off for a week shooting pheasant in South Dakota. He says it was the happiest week of his life because he did not have to listen to Reuther.) Coen: Is the U.A.W. fighting for the whole world? Reuther: We have been fighting to hold prices and increase purchasing power. We are making our little contribution in that respect...
Generals George Marshall and Henry ("Hap") Arnold went on an armed mission into the wilds of North Dakota. Reports came back that both generals bagged their limit of pheasants the first...
...Smoke from the hotbox eddied beneath the locomotive. The Great Northern's west bound Empire Builder, pounding hard for lost time in North Dakota's bronzed wheat lands, ground to an emergency stop just beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
When the vote came, it was an anticlimax. Only North Dakota's lone-wolf William Langer and Minnesota's tall, grey Henrik Shipstead voted against it. The ayes: 35 Republicans, 53 Democrats and one Progressive. For a historic step there was no cheering, no demonstration. The gallery crowd went away quietly...