Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ames, Iowa...
...real news of the nation's political future and its economic direction lies in people who seldom see a reporter. Last month TIME'S Contributing Editor Alvin Josephy set out to talk to these people. He drove 7,400 miles westward through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, along the Oregon Trail through central Nebraska and Wyoming, across northern Utah and southern Idaho, into eastern Oregon and Washington, then back through Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the northern counties of the Midwest farm states. He chose dirt-section line roads in preference to highways, the little towns over...
...building going on: new store buildings, clubhouses and public institutions, and dozens and dozens of modern schools, most of them along simple, functional lines. I remember beautiful schools, for instance, in Idaho Falls and a suburb of Billings, Mont., and others going up in towns in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. In the commercial centers, the streets are lined with late-model cars. Everywhere I went I had a continuing impression of homes being kept up, business being done, and people being better off than they have ever been before...
...others told me elsewhere: "The thing we've got to fight against is alien, Asiatic Communism-not socialism. A managed farm economy is socialism, and we've got it, and we've got to keep it." And at a service-club lunch at Burlington, Iowa, a man who has 1,400 acres of fine corn land between West Burlington and Mt. Pleasant said: "The big Easterners are trying to sell Eisenhower that all he has to do is toss the farmers a little help after disaster hits, like it has in Texas. We went...
...Washington Irving elementary school in Waverly, Iowa, Architects Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will went on the theory that children are happiest in their own little community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however, are of different heights, and each height has its reasons. The low-ceiling corridors leave room for extra clerestory windows in the classrooms, but the high-peaked playroom is designed in part for adults who want to hold dances or meetings at night...