Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 1925, the Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom of the seniority list on their previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge. The best guess is that Maverick Morse will be similarly corralled in 1953, i.e., will be bumped to the bottom of the Armed Services and Labor...
...holdouts: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana,South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin...
Author Hawley, a businessman himself, got to know the ins & outs of corporate life in 25 years with Armstrong Cork Co. Born in South Dakota, he joined Armstrong in 1927 as an adman, worked up through sales and finance to become advertising director. A short-story writer for slick magazines on the side, Hawley quit Armstrong six months ago to write his first book. Some of his reviewers, he says, were baffled by Executive Suite: they were so accustomed to caricatured businessmen that they kept looking for the tongue in Hawley's cheek. Hawley is not discouraged...
...Gold-Dust Bowl. In that province last week, above the ocean flatness of North Dakota's wheat and cattle plains, flaming gas flares from 69 Amerada wells stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...
...Amerada had hired the crew of drillers, it had spent more than $500,000 just for geophysical work and leases. By the time the well was down to 11,700 ft., it had spent another $500,000. On April 5, 1951, the Iverson discovery well came in and North Dakota became the 27th U.S. state to yield...