Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Defiance, Arizona; Conesville, Iowa. Otherwise, these favorite recipes span the whole range of cookery and were usually accompanied by comments like the following...
...Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
Plant-Formed Soil. The prize virgin soils of temperate regions are the chernozems.* They develop in dryish regions like Iowa and the Ukraine, where the climate naturally favors the growth of tall grasses. The grasses deposit a great deal of organic material in the soil, forming a dark brown, almost black layer a foot or more deep. This (and the slight rainfall) keeps soluble nutrients from leaching away...
Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...
...Iowa City, rugged Notre Dame beat Iowa...