Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have applied for visas are Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman, and Connecticut's Republican Senator William Purtell ("I hope to get the feel of the country"). Seriously considering trips to Russia are Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Henry Dworshak of Idaho and Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear of Delaware. Also mulling over the idea: Kentucky's grand old pro, Democrat Alben W. Barkley...
Endlessly westward from the 97th meridian stretch the Great Plains of the state of North Dakota, fertile in places, arid in others, baked by the summer sun and blown by the winter wind. Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...
TIME, June 27 listed North Dakota among those states in which marriages between whites and Negroes are prohibited. If this statement had appeared in the next issue, TIME would have been in error because by Chapter 126, Laws of North Dakota, 1955, this prohibition was repealed, effective July...
...Firearms are accountable for slightly more than half of the nation's deaths by homicide, cutting and piercing instruments for a quarter, miscellaneous means for the rest. Gun-toting Wyoming and South Dakota polished off 87% of their homicide victims by bullets in 1952. Vermonters, on the other hand, prefer hammers, knives and iron bars: Vermont was the only state to report no homicides by firearms...
...reject the quotas and sell all they can at whatever price the market would bring. Without quotas, the supported price would be only $1.19 a bushel and to get that, farmers still would have to accept acreage restrictions. "It's not too good a choice," said South Dakota's Senator Francis Case, urging a yes vote for quotas. For a time, some farm reporters believed that quotas might get less than the two-thirds vote necessary for continuance. But when the votes were counted this week, they showed an easy victory for quotas and $1.81 wheat rather than...