Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubled the number of high chairs and junior chairs as whole families bore down in record numbers to comb the menus-and take advantage of the rest rooms. The fanciest Miami Beach hotels waited hand and foot-and charged an arm and a leg-on folks from What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington...
...billion in foreign-aid funds-the House's Big Two, and the President, too, took a real pasting. The Senate had agreed to a three-year foreign-aid economic-development program, had authorized $2 billion to finance it. The rebellious House, unimpressed by a special presidential plea (snapped Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "I took my last marching orders in 1916-19"), limited this key Administration program to one year, authorized only $500 million to get it going. Then the House (254-154) cut the President's $3.8 billion foreign-aid request to $3.1 billion...
Once again, Harrison Otis' Times stepped up the booster campaign, this time in harmony with a newly founded Chamber of Commerce, which rounded up the best brains in town, dedicated them to making the city bigger. The new bugle call-climate, opportunity-blared into Iowa and Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Droves of families heeded it and headed West...
Textual Behavior. In Des Moines, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled out as grounds for divorce a charge by Mrs. Valera M. Clough that one of her husband's "cruel and inhuman" practices was to read aloud from Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study of American women...
Footnote. In Dubuque, Iowa, Newspaperman Seymour Kopf, about to publish his book How to Keep Your Job and Be Happy Despite It, wrote an editor: "I analyzed why I, as a newspaperman, had been fired so often. I set down many pointers in the book, and if they are followed, anyone can keep his job forever. At the end of this week, I myself am being fired...