Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upset after Warner's legendary hidden-ball play had given the Indians an early lead. The Braves were returning a kickoff when the whole team came together on the seven-yard line and the ball was slipped up the jersey of Charlie Dillon, a Sioux Indian from South Dakota. Then a flying wedge was formed and Dillon scored to put Carlisle ahead, 11 to 0. Harvard finally did win, however, by a score...
Deep in the Williston Basin at Mandan, N. Dak. last week, Standard Oil of Indiana started production at the basin's first oil refinery, a $30 million giant that was as welcome to North Dakota as the first railroad. At capacity, Standard Oil's refinery will crack 30,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already...
...South Dakota Republican Francis Case, 57, a World War I marine, country editor and rancher, who favored Douglas MacArthur for the Republican presidential nomination...
...Home. In Killdeer, N.Dak., J. K. Eckes, president of the North Dakota Firemen's Association, was fined $2 for parking too close to a fire hydrant...
Philosophy in the Rain. At midweek, Nehru collected an escort of Indian M.P.s and flew in an air force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills...