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Word: iowa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa State 25, Kansas State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Football Results | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

...State 0 0 0 0--0 Tulane 0 0 7 0--7 Notre Dame 27 0 7 6--46 Navy 6 0 0 7--13 Wisconsin 7 31 0 20--48 Missouri 13 7 0 7--27 Illinois 0 6 14 0--30 Indiana 6 3 0 0--9 Iowa 7 0 7 21--35 Oklahoma 14 6 14 14--48 Kansas 0 6 13 7--26 Tennessee 7 0 0 0--7 Alabama 0 7 0 0--7 Baylor 14 0 0 14--28 Texas Tech 0 7 0 0--7 USC 0 0 0 10--10 California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Football Results | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

...National Scholarship calls for a candidate from "that part of the State of Iowa now served by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad." The donor of the fund held the controlling interest in the line in 1909 when he gave the scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Gifts Help Students In University | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...sell more than 20 million more in the 1950 season. Only about 475,000 chicks came directly off the four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices. Noting that 9% of Iowa's chickens were already hybrids, young Henry predicted: "In seven years, 90% of all poultry farmers in the corn belt will be using hybrids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution in Chickens? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...when Wallace finally got his hybrid, it started laying eggs earlier in the season than other breeds, laid larger eggs and more of them. In test runs sponsored by Iowa State College, four flocks of his hybrids netted an egg profit of $3.88 a hen a year, while other leading breeds brought in only 70? to $1.44 a bird. Average production of the hybrids was 247 eggs per chicken while none of the others broke through the 200 mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution in Chickens? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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