Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the National Bureau of Standards was proclaiming that high-frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...
...That plan called for a solid convention-week bloc of 500 delegates from three Taft strongholds-the Midwest, the South, and the Mountain States-plus more than 100 scattered reinforcements from other parts of the country. The Eisenhower forces chipped away some of Taft's Midwest bloc, e.g., Iowa, 15 for Ike, nine for Taft, corralled some delegates in the Mountain States, and were applying the Eisenhower brand of solvent to Taft's Solid South (see below...
Minor Sport H--Steven Chandler, Hackensack, N. J., Ivan Chermayeff, Wellfleet; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven; Robert T. McConanghy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair, Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Christopher Martin, Saxton River, Vt.; Byron B. Morton, Elizabeth, N. J.; Lester Buryl Scherer, Des Moines, Iowa; John W. Smith, Omaha, Neb.; Eric T. Sollee, West Newton; Harry K. Ziel, Pittsburgh; Loyd M. Starett, Manager, Washington...
Running as much as ten feet over flood stage, and ten miles wide in stretches, the muddy Missouri surged through the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska, leaving thousands homeless, more than 1,000,000 acres of farm land inundated, millions of dollars in damage. Whole sections of Pierre, S. Dak. were swamped as the river crashed through the flood walls. Power went out, and with it the city's pumping system, leaving a shortage of drinking water...
Downstream, Sioux City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Neb. were almost isolated by the floods. With only one road out of town still open and water in the streets rising near the second-story mark, South Sioux City all but gave up the fight. Mayor Wilbur Allen urged the entire population (5,557) to evacuate, keeping only the top floors of the high school open as a refugee center...