Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elections to be held next year for the places now occupied by 13 Republicans and 21 Democrats, planners of both parties are busy figuring out ways & means to win control of the Senate. The G.O.P. has a covetous eye on the Senate seats of five Democrats: Illinois' Douglas, Iowa's Gillette, Delaware's Frear, Montana's Murray and Minnesota's Humphrey. Democrats have marked four Republicans for defeat: Michigan's Ferguson...
...Okayed the resignations of 1) Chrysler Corp. Board Chairman K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, director since 1950 of the Defense Department's Guided Missiles Office, 2) Craig R. Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Sheaffer, Iowa pen manufacturer, had been on the way out ever since his attempt to get Allen V. Astin fired from his post as Bureau of Standards director detonated the great battery-additive debate (TIME, April...
...Although there is no known cure for rheumatoid arthritis, the disease often burns itself out in time. For patients trying to keep in good shape during the long, painful siege, the University of Iowa's Dr. William D. Paul had some homely hints: for fingers and wrists, wash dishes; for fingers alone, milk cows; for toes and ankles, pick up marbles with the toes; for back and abdomen, try gardening. The very weary, said Dr. Paul, could give hips and knees a stiff workout in a rocking chair...
Meanwhile, Benson personally bears the brunt of the bitterness. In Goodland and Logansport, Ind., Centerville, Mt. Pleasant and Shenandoah, Iowa, Nebraska City, Kearney, Ogallala and the Scottsbluff area of Nebraska, I met many who complained that the Secretary is a businessman, not a farmer. In strong Farm Union areas such as central and eastern Montana the Republican Party and policy are held to blame rather than Benson. Near Billings, I heard a recorded anti-G.O.P. speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable...
Lean Butter. To recapture some of the butter market lost to margarine, a group of officials of the Iowa Department of Agriculture will soon begin selling a butter called Dairy Spread, which is made of non-fat dry milk and 58% butter fat (v. 80% and more in regulation butter). The spread will be marketed by Dairy Foods Co., a Nashua, law firm set up by the Agriculture men. Price: about 20? a lb. cheaper than ordinary butter...