Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's big steel center at Gary, he launched into a heated defense of the Taft-Hartley Act. Before a group of Omaha farmers and cattlemen, he stated firmly that farm support prices were too high...
This is Lockridge's first effort, and his six years of labor have produced a gigantic and complicated penetration into The American Myth, enmeshed in a tome which numbers 1066 pages and three explanatory charts that piece out a momentous Fourth of July in an Indiana small town...
Practical Hazing. Hell Week had been banned on some campuses-notably at Indiana University, after nine Theta Chis were jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
...industry had seen the revolution on the way and started to get ready. The Texas Co. has a 38% interest in Carthage Hydrogl, Inc., is now building a $20 million plant at Brownsville, Tex. to produce synthetic gasoline and oil daily from natural gas. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will shortly begin construction of an $80 million synthetic plant in the Hugoton gas fields of Kansas. The two plants will produce 14,000 barrels of oil daily...
Shawnessy's Eve. As little Johnny Shawnessy, born in 1839, he grew up in the cornland of central Indiana. In his teens he pored over Shakespeare and began writing a column signed "Will Westward" for a Raintree County weekly paper. He fell in love with a beautiful girl named Nell. Among his friends were Cassius P. ("Cash") Carney, a boy with business sense, and Garwood Jones, a robust, youthful politician with a shrewd eye for the girls and the main chance. Garwood Jones and Johnny Shawnessy were rivals for Nell, but Garwood would never have won out if Johnny...