Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. Fort Wayne, Ind...
...Lincoln Life Insurance Co., of Springfield, Ill. You mention the name of the company once but do not name the city of its location; viz., Springfield, Ill. You refer to it later as "Lincoln Life" and several times as "Lincoln." The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., which I organized and of which I have always been the head, has been in business 29 years, and now is 18th in the entire U. S. for volume of insurance in force. . . . Strong and well managed, it is a company which came through the terrible depression with "colors living...
...labeled with a card painted ultraviolet-white, the bee will soon learn to select that card among plain white cards which to the human eye seem indistinguishable from the one selected. No entomologist would use this visual faculty to lure to destruction the useful honey bee. But in Lafayette, Ind., scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop in apples and do U. S. agriculture $13,000,000 worth of damage each & every year. Finding that the moths preferred early evening for their egg-laying, Purduemen...
...William Albert Wirt, Gary, Ind. school superintendent, who thought the Reds were about to capture the Government last spring, took a practical view of General Butler's Fascist uprising. "Three million dollars would be a mere bagatelle for a revolution," said he. "Why, that would be only $6 a head for an army...
...Kokomo, Ind. is located 125 mi. southwest of Kalamazoo, Mich, and 100 mi. southeast of Kankakee, Ill. In 1842 a trader named David Foster bought for a few dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...