Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laura Ingalls is to outdo the famed exploits of tousle-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam. Since last April Miss Ingalls, trying extra hard, has concentrated on the long-standing Earhart non-stop record across the U. S. from West to East. Her first attempt fizzled in Colorado, her next in Indiana. Disgruntled, she tried her hand at non-stop flying from East to West, was the first woman to succeed at it (TIME, July 22). Last week, she was again ready to tackle the West-East flight...
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...almost entirely through a haze of suspicions. He attached himself to Senator Walsh in the original Teapot Dome investigation, later scribbled two questions on a piece of paper and handed it to that inquisitor. For refusing to answer those two questions Chairman Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana was tried for contempt of the Senate, and although acquitted, lost his job with the Rockefellers (TIME, March 18, 1929). Today Correspondent Anderson and Scripps-Howard's Ruth Finney, who has all a woman's ingenuity in asking embarrassing questions, are Senator Black's two closest Press aids. Hugo Black...
...Tommy Loughran when Loughran was still the world's ablest boxer of his weight. Attracted by this line of reasoning, the biggest crowd that has watched a Chicago fight since the second Tunney-Dempsey set-to, a wildly eager 40,000 that included six State Governors (Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan), a sprinkling of socialites, most of the underworld, and 1,000 police with tear gas and Thompson sub-machineguns, crowded into Comiskey Park to see the excitement...
Lawyer Morrow was acting as agent for Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. of Tulsa, subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana. Standard of Indiana wanted Yount-Lee to assure an adequate supply of crude oil for the Texas refineries of another subsidiary, Pan American Petroleum & Transport. So Lawyer Morrow sold the physical assets of Yount-Lee Oil to Stanolind for $42,000,000, keeping real estate, notes and accounts receivable of approximately $4,000,000. He expects to make his profit on the largest cash deal in Texas history by liquidating these assets...