Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the unique . . . gesture of congratulation to T. S. Eliot on his receipt of the Nobel Prize came from four State University of Iowa students. They sent him a jazz record then popular-Ray McKinley's You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis. A prompt acknowledgment came from Eliot...
DEAN CADLE Iowa City, Iowa...
McCarthy had accused her of having been a member of 28 Communist fronts. The ex-judge, a greying and angry woman, seemed delighted at the chance to appear; having called McCarthy an "unmitigated liar," she disproved his accusations so thoroughly that the audience applauded her, and Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper apologetically said there was not "the least evidence" that she had been "in any way subversive or disloyal...
...Iowa farm boy, Stan Talbott had a slick way of convincing roadside customers that he sold only freshly laid eggs. Stan would duck into the henhouse where he kept his ready-packaged eggs, push the hens about to make them cackle, and presently reappear with the eggs carefully sprinkled with pillow feathers...
...nothing "about the thousands of acres of farm land which wash down the Missouri each year." Again it would be enlightening to know on what facts this statement is based. The Department of Agriculture is actively participating in the Pick-Sloan program. A number of the Valley states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Minnesota, are among the leaders in the nation in soil conservation districts. A substantial portion of the Pick-Sloan funds is allotted so soil conservation. The fact is that the Missouri Basin is now doing and has done a far better job of conserving its soil than...