Word: decorah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
Died. Margaret ("Marge") Hurlburt, 32, onetime Ohio schoolteacher and wartime WASP who last March piloted a Navy Corsair fighter to a women's international speed record (337.635 m.p.h.); when her plane crashed while stunting in a July 4 air show; in Decorah, Iowa...