Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Barker was the Massachusetts appointee to the Naval Academy in 1903. He graduated in 1907 and was on the battleship "Nebraska" and the armored cruiser "South Dakota" during the next few years, when he saw Central and South America, the South Seas, and Asiatic Station...
...British Empire and UNRRA. He argued: India was chipping in $35 million to UNRRA, while millions of its own were starving. How could UNRRA move into India to feed the 750,000 Burmese refugees there, but not feed the hungry Indians alongside? Finally Republican Karl Mundt of South Dakota offered a last-minute amendment to the UNRRA bill: "Any area important to the military operations of the United Nations which is stricken by famine or disease may be included in the benefits." It breezed through. Then Singh moved over to the Senate...
...similar South Dakota test, results were about the same: plowing yielded more corn, less wheat...
...McGonegal, of North Dakota, who had known only prairies, horses, steam engines and a whirl through training camps, went to France. He arrived in the Toul sector on Jan. 19, 1918, where his outfit relieved some Moroccan soldiers near Beaumont. On a clear day the Americans could see the city of Metz. They said to each other that sooner or later they'd knock the damn place down...
...made his discovery when cattlemen in North Dakota and Canada complained that some of their stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...