Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beranek, Guggenheim Research Fellow at the University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science Monday by Cornell College, Iowa...
...more advanced than in the cities. The average village is at least one-third rebuilt, with warm, clean log houses well thatched and chinked. The Ukraine is Russia's richest agricultural region; in food and housing its peasants now have a living standard "well below that of an Iowa farmer, but well above that of a Southern sharecropper." This spring the planting was 80% of prewar normal, but drought has already almost halved the expected-and desperately needed-1946 crop...
...arrived in Washington a quarter century ago from Anamosa, Iowa to catch on briefly with the Washington Herald before landing a small job with Pathfinder (a news weekly which circulates mostly to farmers), where he ran a question & answer column that predated the radio quiz shows. Other reporters who had vaulted to fame and fat contracts wondered what kept...
...Frederick W. Fitch was a barber in Madrid, Iowa (pop. 565). His shampoo became so popular that he quit barbering to make "Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo." By last year, his company had annual sales of $11,000,000. The advertising that did the trick: "Fitch Shampoo removes every trace of dandruff on first application...
...Beranek, director of the Systems Research and Electro-Acoustic Laboratories, was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Cornell College, Iowa, this week, in recognition of his "contribution to the war effort...