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...tentative heralding of distant spring was a welcome break in the routine at Grandview Hills No. 1, the northernmost oil-drilling operation in Canada's history. Only the day before, a dropped wrench, crystallized by the -42° cold, shattered like an icicle when it hit the derrick floor...
...year or more because he didn't want to cheapen the presidency by trading on his name. "I think Herbert Hoover has handled himself perfectly," said Harry. Closest to his heart was his plan to establish a Truman memorial library and research center on the family farm in Grandview, but that would have to wait until the Truman Library Fund had raised $1,500,000-a goal it was still far from reaching. Later in the day, Harry & friends strolled around the farm at In dependence, and he marked out where he thought the library buildings ought...
...press conference the president revealed that he hoped to erect a federally controlled Archives Building in Grandview, Missouri...
...faux pas was a letter which he had co-sponsored with another fervent Truman Democrat, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, and mailed to selected businessmen around the country. It began by suggesting that a special archives building should be constructed on Harry Truman's farm at Grandview, Mo., to keep the papers of the Truman Administration, much as Franklin Roosevelt's are kept at Hyde Park, N.Y. The President, said the letter, has already agreed to donate the land for the "Harry S. Truman Library...
...Grandview, Mo., while Harry Tru man's sister, Mary Jane, officiated down town at a cornerstone laying, brother J. Vivian Truman suffered a concussion and back injuries falling out of a hayloft...