Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ideal location for the proposed Nazi coup was this most pro-Allied, smallest of South American republics (size of North Dakota, population of Los Angeles). Bounded on the west by big Argentina and on the northeast by bigger Brazil, it provided an admirable base for espionage against its larger neighbors, consistent advisers on its foreign policy...
...South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...
...South Dakota's trend to the G. O. P. was plain...
...among them the battleships Idaho, Oklahoma, Colorado, and the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Its merchant ships include the slick U. S. Lines liners Manhattan and Washington. Now it is building seven ships (all naval) worth $145,000,000. One of them, the 35,000-ton, $52,794,000 battleship South Dakota, puts New York Ship, in the odd position of a manufacturer producing a single sales unit worth more than four times as much as his total assets ($12,559,000). To its seven warships was added last week the probability of two more when the Navy announced that New York...
...Editor Reynolds, in a spacious cell that looked out on one of Montana's traveling gallows, awaited trial. Nobody knows where the Pink Reporter is printed. It has been farmed out to various print shops in Montana, now comes (according to rumor) from a press somewhere in North Dakota. Not a copy was to be found last week on Montana newsstands. But in his cell in Gallatin County jail was a long table covered with pencils and copy paper, and Tip Reynolds at week's end was busily editing his next issue...