Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known as the North Dakota and Western Railroad, which was built by Thomas J. North Dakota...
...were: 1) registering for jobs with the Oklahoma City U.S. Employment Service office at the rate of 35 a day, 2) packing their belongings in jalopies and heading for the West Coast. Some 1,000 Arkansas farmers, under a labor-exchange agreement, crowded special trains bound for the North Dakota wheat harvest...
Most Congressmen were fagged out. On his first night home, St. Louis' bustling Walter Ploeser slept a full ten hours for the first time since January. South Dakota's balding Karl Mundt had lost 20 pounds in Washington...
...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
...said the report, a wide 1,500-mile swath curving from Oklahoma to Michigan and northern New York-one-quarter of all U.S. crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...