Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans on the committee voted against the report. Complained Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, who had made the original charge: "A clear case of whitewash...
...there were already signs that the crop, while large, would not be as big as forecast. In Iowa,the nation's biggest corn producer, the corn borer had done more damage than ever before. A dry summer had also hurt a bit. The Department of Agriculture lopped off almost 80 million bushels from its original lowa crop estimate of 662 million bushels. Then one day last week, the wind came...
...escaped the battering. This week, the Des Moines Register's farm editor reckoned that upwards of 50 million bushels was on the ground in Iowa. In Minnesota an estimated 25% of the crop was leveled...
...into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...