Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of North Dakota...
...opposite direction. His sign read: "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." He was Abe Tikotsky, an electrical worker, once of Springfield, Ill., with a lugubrious voice and sore feet. He said: "These dopes ain't got no sense. . . ."A clean-cut youth from South Dakota, now working in the War Department, stopped by and said: "That's a wonderful thing you're doing, fella." "Fine," said Abe. "would you mind standing in for me a minute?" "Not at all," said the clean-cut youth, and took the sign. Abe crossed the street to Lafayette Square...
California, here we come. Can you raise bigger nuts than South Dakota...
...first new battleship to join the U.S. Navy in 18 years. By July she will be ready to make her trial runs, then join the Fleet. Close behind will be her sister ship, the Washington, almost completed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and by next year the South Dakota.* And when the North Carolina goes into service, she will have profound effects on U.S. naval power and strategy...
...this victory was stocky Ted V. Rodgers, longtime head of the American Trucking Associations, Inc., trade organization and lobby for the U.S. trucking business. In its fight for higher maximum loads the association is having a good year: since Jan. 1 four other States (Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota) have upped the limits. Four others (Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, South Dakota) have new laws in the legislative works. But the trucking industry still is hampered by State-to-State differences in maximum loads, maximum sizes, license fees and port-of-entry restrictions. Of all the interstate trade barriers condemned last...