Word: indiana
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Betty Lou Amster is the only woman police reporter Louisville has ever had. After breaking into journalism on an Indiana newspaper, Mrs. Amster landed on the Louisville Times (circ. 167,607) five years ago, made good on the police and courthouse beats. She was later moved to general assignments, especially sob-sister stories, and became dissatisfied with her job and herself. At 24, Betty Lou felt that she had "run out of learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...Ohiot State 0 0 0 0--0 Tulane 0 0 7 0--7 Notre Dame 27 0 7 6--46 Navy 6 0 0 7--13 Wisconsin 7 31 0 20--48 Missouri 13 7 0 7--27 Illinois 0 6 14 0--30 Indiana 6 3 0 0--9 Iowa 7 0 7 21--35 Oklahoma 14 6 14 14--48 Kansas 0 6 13 7--26 Tennessee 7 0 0 0--7 Alabama 0 7 0 0--7 Baylor 14 0 0 14--28 Texas Tech 0 7 0 0--7 USC 0 0 0 10--10 California...
...Indiana-born, sturdily built Grandstaff boxed a little, tried selling pianos. But he found pilfering the easiest way. The only trouble was that he almost always got caught. Finally, in 1940, he was picked up in Memphis for breaking into a store, stealing a $25 radio. It was his 20th conviction and his fourth in Tennessee, and in Tennessee four strikes are out. As a "habitual criminal," Frank Grandstaff was sent to the state penitentiary at Nashville for life...
...locating his store on a busy highway near the Indiana line and selling at cut rates, Meyer Jacob had become one of Chicago's biggest liquor dealers. But when the state legislature passed the Mandatory Fair Trade Act in July 1947, the state liquor commission tried to suspend his license for selling Penn Springs whisky 95? cheaper than the fair trade (i.e., minimum retail) price. Jacob kept his license while he fought the case through the courts...
...Electricidad (CADE), which operates light & power plants in the Buenos Aires area; Mexican Light & Power, Ltd.; Belgium's Société d'Electricite de Rosario; Portugal's Compagnies Réunies Gaz et Electricité; and, in the U.S., the Public Service of of Indiana, Inc. and Central Illinois Public Service...