Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recovery. Only a little less remarkable has been the growth of the surface U.S. Navy in the year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
When Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got his new powers over food last week, he was traveling up & down the country trying to whip up enthusiasm for his 1943 production goals* without much success. Barring a miracle, Claude Wickard's fellow farmers (he raises corn and hogs in Indiana) did not see how they could keep production steady, much less increase...
Thus the castor bean will flourish from Illinois and Indiana to Texas, at least until the China trade is restored. The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has already jumped into production on the basis of four crops per year on each farm. The first commercial castor-oil crushing plant went into operation at Brownsville last spring, ready to process a million pounds of oil this year...
...haired, six foot one inch Freshman brought a very impressive record with him from Logansport, Indians, where he starred last year. He was chosen on an all-Indiana squad of ten, no mean honor in the basketball-mad Middle West. This team was scheduled to play an all-Kentucky team around the first of September, but Fansler couldn't participate because he was at Summer School here...
...lengthy statement of grievances accuses "Life" of subverting the truth to a good story, of taking pictures under false pretences, and failing to understand the part Indiana is playing in the war effort. The letter then describes the war participation at the University, mentioning reserve membership, conditioning programs, acceleration, and service groups stationed there...