Word: dale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle for food thunders loudest on the wheat sector, he fights on his own position in the line, confident in his farmer's knowledge that the battle must be fought on many fields, with many crops. The field that Gus Kuester and his slight, tough-fibered son Dale, 28, hold against hunger is 240 acres of fat, black Iowa earth. Their citadels are two farmhouses and their outworks-barns, farrowing sheds, chicken houses and consumptively coughing windmills...
...Dale's house, on the back 80, is a prosperous middle-western farm home with all possible conveniences. Gus's house, like a thousand Cass County farmhouses, is a seven-room frame structure weathered to a faded ocher with trim the color of last year's canned peas. (Like thousands of Iowa farmers, the Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws...
...collectors are less fortunate. Last week, at a Manhattan auction, Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens went for $23,500 (to Broker Chester Dale, who has spent over $6,000,000 for French and American paintings). Other buyers (mostly anonymous) paid $30,000 for one Toulouse-Lautrec, $27,500 for another. A Corot went for $18,000; a Cezanne portrait of his wife for $24,500; a view of the Seine by Daumier for $15,250, and one by Monet for $11,000; a Renoir nude sold for $12,000. Total evening's business...
Sirs, if you have a conscience at all, you will see to it that . . . music criticism is put into sane and capable hands. (Signed) R. C. Taylor Dale S. Higbee. G. Norman McKinney J. G. Slam Charles M. Daley...
After interning at the Hopkins, Dr. Harvey studied under Sir Henry Hallet Dale at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, on a fellowship from the American College of Physicians. There he became a nerve and muscle specialist. In 1941, while an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt, he was "pulled" by the Army with other members of a Hopkins medical unit and sent to the Pacific. He studied the effects of atabrine on malaria in Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines. Now a major on terminal leave, he will take on his new job in June, able to view...