Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the climactic race of his tour, Maki was matched against Indiana's Don Lash, New York's Joe McCluskey and Montana's chunky Gregory Rice, Notre Dame...
...Indiana University: the National Collegiate A. A. basketball tournament; defeating the University of Kansas, another basketball hotbed, in the final, 60-10-42; before 10,000 rabid rooters in the Municipal Auditorium; at Kansas City. Same night, at Indianapolis, 15,000 fans saw Hammond Tech, survivors of a field of 775 high-school teams, win the Indiana State high-school championship, a sport event for which Hoosiers would not trade tickets for the World Series, the Rose Bowl or the Kentucky Derby...
...year 80% of the 31,000 combines sold in the U. S. were little fellows six feet and under. Since U. S. farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds of thousands in other States), growers of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, red clover seed, alfalfa, timothy, sweet clover, beans, cowpeas-as potential market for small combines...
Collegiate. At Indianapolis and Kansas City eight of the top college teams in the country fought it out in the Eastern and Western play-offs for the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. At Indianapolis, in the final of the Eastern Division playoffs, Indiana University (runner-up to Purdue in the Big Ten Conference) trounced Pittsburgh's Duquesne (defeated only once in 18 games during the season), 39-to-30. At Kansas City in the last round of the Western Division playoffs, the University of Kansas (Big Six co-champions) nosed out the University of Southern California (champions...
Week after week columnists gave loud hushes, hinted that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...