Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biggest of these is the growing threat of inflation, largely generated by heavy defense spending for the war, though the attendant dangers of tax increases and price and wage controls may also be issues. "We're going to have to answer the Republicans on inflation," concludes South Dakota Democratic Official Herb Teske. "They're comparing the dollar to a wooden nickel, blaming the President and saying we can't support our boys in Viet Nam and Great Society programs at the same time...
Along a tunnel 4,850 ft. beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold...
...economic, social and cultural force in its area. The town of Deadwood, last resting place of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, grew up less than five miles away as an entertainment annex for the miners. Now, with 1,692 workers at Lead (pop. 6,200), Homestake is South Dakota's second largest industrial employer. It has given its workers so many benefits -a free hospital, elaborate recreation center and incentive bonuses-that Homestake employees have roundly rejected unions five times...
...British before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm on the North Dakota-Canada border, flew its bombers there from the Burbank assembly line, hitched them to teams of horses. The horses, supposedly not subject to the laws of man, drew the planes across the boundary. Canadians unhitched the animals, let British pilots ferry the aircraft on to England...
...none of this prepared Amanda for the shock. She was just out of bed and barely into her morning paper in her Manhattan apartment at the Dakota (same floor as Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall) when she spotted her name in boldface. Down dropped her paper and her aplomb...