Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruminant. In Black Hawk County, Iowa, Farmer Sheldon Anton finally spotted the cause of an old lump on his cow's flank when he noticed twelve inches of pitchfork handle protruding from her ribs...
...example, which Alcoa hailed as "the greatest single application ever achieved in the building trades," was its giant new $30 million rolling mill at Davenport, Iowa. Built in 18 months and nearly ready to start production (of extra-wide sheeting), the mill squats over 47 acres along the banks of the Mississippi River...
...people of nine states surveyed the damage. An estimated 52 were dead, and hundreds injured. Rain-swollen rivers flooded valleys in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. Wreckage littered the Midwest landscape for a thousand miles...
...from his exclusive personal experience. Both The Managing Editor of The Newsmagazine, for whom Miller once ground out crisp copy, and one Jonathan Lee, wealthy sponsor of a "think" journal called Thought, spring from actual life parallels in pretty ruthless prose. On his trip to the hometown of Hadley, Iowa (Miller grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude with the Hadley Republican feature writer, a "promising" young lady...
...last week Michigan's well-coached* athletes were singing it as if they meant it. Michigan's basketball team danced around Iowa (51-35) to become champions of the Dig Nine. Then the players made a beeline for Coach Ozzie Cowles, and shoved him under a shower, clothes...