Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Andersen, who was born in Denmark 149 years ago last week. The show, a vast one to which 45 nations contributed, is divided into sections; this week part of it was on display at the New York Public Library, another part at the Municipal Art Gallery of Davenport, Iowa. Organized by a Danish welfare group, the exhibition is being circulated throughout the free world...
...four-year cycle of drought, which began in 1950, was hardly noticed at first; the borders of the drought area varied from year to year because of local weather conditions. In parts of Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois, for instance, rainfall has been far below normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more...
Writing for his monthly publication, The Point, Feeney claimed that President Pusey, "who hails from such an unsemitic place as Iowa, was imported to see if he could pry the Jews loose gently...
Tulenko is from Holyoke, Mass: Culver from Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Hardy from Birmingham, Mich...
...Record. The investigators found that Oilman George Vasen had been convicted of a confidence racket in Iowa 20 years before and served a five-year prison term, had been convicted of a similar offense in Illinois in 1941 (which the state Supreme Court reversed), and later got in trouble in Mississippi over his tung-nut dealings. The SEC tracked down 600 small investors who had poured between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 into Vasen's bottomless well...