Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadcasting from Washington after his last hard-driving primary campaign in South Dakota, Bob Taft concentrated on what he had found to be "the greatest concern" of the American people: U.S. foreign policy. With forthright emphasis, "Mr. Republican" denied the existence of genuine bipartisanship in foreign affairs, denounced the diplomacy of Truman and Acheson as "the most disastrous" in the whole history of U.S. foreign policy, then offered his own formula to protect freedom and defeat Communism. He disavowed isolationism in the strongest terms, and called for a "crusade" to "spread the doctrine of individual liberty throughout the world...
...this final primary, Candidate Taft is on a hotter spot than Candidate Eisenhower. For here, in Taft's Midwest heartland, Taft should win. A defeat in South Dakota would be a blow to Taft...
...Most Fascinated." South Dakota was almost the last lap in the marathon Robert Alphonso Taft has been doggedly running for at least 14 and possibly for 43 years. In 1909, when President William Howard Taft was inaugurated, his eldest son Bob, then 19, rode down Pennsylvania Avenue in a chugging auto with his sister Helen and his little brother Charles, 11. Charles (now the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio) had brought along a copy of Treasure Island to read, because he suspected that the ceremony would be "pretty dry." But Helen (now Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, a professor...
...greatest treasure hunt in U.S. history is in full cry. Above the green of North Dakota wheatfields rise the spidery towers of oil-drilling rigs. On the plains of Utah, shirt-sleeved crews set off dynamite blasts and, from the vibrations, map the subterranean oil-bearing strata. Over Alabama cottonfields fly planes with strange; antenna-like tails, which pick up magnetic waves and thus record geological formations below. In West Texas, wildcatters, trucks loaded with tools, inch across the prairies like gypsy caravans...
...turning up oil where it has never been found before, the hunt is transforming whole regions. Denver, center of the furious drilling activity in the new Denver-Julesburg oilfields (see map), is already talking cockily of eclipsing Houston as the oil capital of the world. In Montana and North Dakota, whose saucerlike Williston Basin contains immense oil treasures, the Big Sky country's cattle and wheat economy is getting ready for a tremendous upsurge of industry. Men in the area foresee pipelines, refineries and plants turning out "petrochemicals" (TIME, May 12), oil's new frontier...