Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spotlight. When Harold Stassen appeared in Jefferson, Iowa last week, for his first big foreign-policy speech since returning from abroad, the pros were listening carefully. His main points: the U.S. should devote 10% of its national production for the next ten years to the systematic rebuilding of the world; the U.S. would be repaid in needed raw materials and in the stability it was now trying to create piecemeal...
...After years of trying to discourage motorists who chase their trucks. Tipton (Iowa) firemen got even. A fire engine with siren screaming led 100 hot-eyed drivers into the Cedar County fair grounds, kept them circling the track until it was packed hard enough for some midget automobile races the department had sponsored...
...major leagues go after: big, cool and hardworking, with a good pair of hands. The scouts, baseball's ivory hunters, have seen plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve, a .461 batting average...
...Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...
Robert E. Fitzner, of Evans Road, Flossmoor, Illinois, a graduate of Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, Edward Foote, of 601 Iowa Avenue, Aurora, Illinois, a graduate of West Aurora High School...