Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
Search for Oil. At the height of its expansion, Matador owned or leased feeding ranges which included large tracts in Saskatchewan and hundreds of thousands of acres of reservation land leased from the Indians in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Now, apart from the main 400,000-acre Matador ranch, the holdings consist of another 394,000-acre ranch (the Alamositas, or Little Cottonwoods) 140 miles to the northwest, and a small 4,000acre feeding strip near Malta, Mont. The lure to the buyers of Matador is not only cattle; it is also oil and gas. Although Humble Oil & Refining...
...swept the meeting away. But the ranchers liked the camp-meeting idea. Joe Evans and his Presbyterian friends decided to hold a meeting every year at Nogal Mesa-and to spread to other states. Since then they have set up similar meetings in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. Each summer, in two trucks containing tents, hymnbooks and other equipment, they travel a sweeping circuit of 7,000 miles...
...last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike in the entire Williston Basin was made four months...
Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota draped his huge 72-year-old frame over the reading stand in the House of Representatives and fixed a jaundiced eye on his colleagues. He was irked by continuing criticisms of U.S. farmers. He was disgusted by the bitter debate on economic controls...