Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...searching B-17 plane spotted the crashed C-47, circled low. Then a wingtip brushed the mountain and the search plane crashed, too. Only survivor of a ten-man crew, Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...
...Iowa 61, Harvard...
...Iowa City's Daily Iowan wanted to see how accurate it was. So Editor R. Bruce Hughes clipped each day's local stories, sent them to the people they mentioned, invited corrections and complaints...
Little Perfex Co. of Shenandoah, Iowa, had a big idea. Perfex wanted a synthetic starch that would come bottled, ready for use, and make starching as simple as washing. Since Perfex had no research staff, it laid the problem in the lap of Kansas City's Midwest Research Institute. Six weeks later, Midwest's chemists came up with "Gloss Tex." Perfex is now busy shipping hundreds of barrels of this new synthetic starch...
Right Bower. As Ed's successor, the convention picked shaggy-browed Allan Kline, 52, of Iowa, who has long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign...