Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BRUCE F. ANDERSON Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
Because of "revolutionary developments in underwater warfare," the Navy last week drew one light carrier and eight destroyers out of mothballs. To help provide the men to man them, the Navy retired the battleship Iowa to the inactive list...
What could be done about it? One city -Portland, Ore.-was trying to find out. Marjorie and Kenneth Means had moved from Iowa to take teaching jobs in Portland. They expected they might be lonely for a while, as most new teachers are. They were in for a surprise...
S.O.P. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Judge Floyd Philbrick dismissed Mary S. Miner's petition for divorce after ruling that slapping one's wife on the backside does not constitute "cruel and inhuman treatment...
Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch...