Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa-born Nila Cram Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...
After 16 years of profit-sharing, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.'s 1,766 workers were used to bonuses. But last week, in the main plant at Fort Madison, Iowa, a notice went up that set men & women dancing among the machines. For the latest quarter, their bonus would total 50% of their pay-by far the biggest in Sheaffer's history, and more than double the previous quarter...
...employees who work in Iowa's four air-conditioned Sheaffer plants have never joined a union, never gone on strike and their turnover of 3% a year is a third less than the U.S. industrial average for last year...
...years, major-league scouts drooled every time they saw big, tousle-haired Paul Pettit throw a baseball. Not since Fireball Bob Feller was an apple-cheeked Iowa schoolboy had they seen anything like Pettit. But by the laws of organized baseball it was taboo to discuss such down-to-earth matters as money with Pettit until his schooling was finished at Narbonne High in Lomita, Calif. While the scouts were counting the days until the 18-year-old pitcher graduated, they learned something that made them dry-mouthed and white-lipped...
...their demands was that women's suffrage was not enough. They demanded a constitutional amendment which declared: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." The battle was joined when Iowa's earnest, white-haired Guy Gillette introduced the amendment on the floor of the Senate...