Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pork-barrel bill, hog-fat as it was. It had passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by a lopsided 82 to 9, and since it included projects for every state, a lot of Republicans would be tempted to vote to override the veto. Said Iowa's Congressman Ben Jensen, ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee that drafted the measure: "I just can't see how the President could veto this bill." Before boarding his plane at midweek, the President fired several other salvos in his running battle with the Democratic Congress. Items...
...convention's end, effort to achieve peace through law had been given still another strong push: newly elected A.B.A. President John D. Randall, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa attorney, threw his full weight behind an A.B.A. committee, headed by former President Charles Rhyne, which is already studying the possibilities of peace through law. Said Randall: "We're going to make it the most terrific committee in the history of the A.B.A...
...seven handsome villages near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some 1,400 members of one of the nation's strangest sects sat down last week to sausages, hams, homemade cheeses, beer and wine. The Amana Society was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its charter in Iowa, and the neat homes, the television sets, the modern appliances and the new cars all testified to prosperity-a prosperity that Amana has enjoyed since it rejected communism and turned with all its zeal to capitalism nearly 30 years...
Like the Hutterites and other German pietist sects, the Amanas came to the U.S. from the Rhineland to escape state and established-church persecution for their beliefs, soon followed their prophet-leaders out to till 18,000 acres (since increased to 25,000) of rich Iowa prairie; they set up blanket mills and furniture shops, quarried sandstone and dug red clay for bricks to build austere homes and churches...
...that provided plow-back capital and paid dividends. Mechanic George Foerstner, who designed the colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business got big enough to need more capital, he got Iowa financiers to pay Amana $1,750,000 for the plant. The money helped boost Amana Society's original $50 stock to its present value: $3,600 a share...