Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lippisch escaped from Vienna just ahead of the invading Russians. He now works for the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has an embryo aeronautical division. His aerodyne* (he refuses to have it called an airplane), which has flown only in the form of small electrically powered models, is truly wingless. It looks like a fuselage with no wings, and it gets its lift from a blast of air blown out through a big hole in its belly. The air comes in through the nose, is compressed and speeded up by a jet engine driving internal propellers. Then...
...Mason City, Iowa has tried another system. Its inventor: Associate Professor Nadine Fillmore of Coe College. Though Professor Fillmore does not ignore other methods of attacking words, she places a heavy emphasis on phonics. Mason City tested two groups of 17 pupils, found that after one semester, 14 of the 17 taught by the Fillmore method had gained anywhere from three-tenths of a month to four years and four months over their counterparts in a normal class...
...Smears a Day. While his Iowa-born wife campaigned in his own critical Sydney electorate, Laborite Evatt stumped the country in a sweat-stained hat and rumpled suit, screeching defiance. Said he: "The championship of smearing has passed from Senator McCarthy to the Prime Minister. His election motto is ten smears a day to keep the doctor at bay." But wherever he went, the cry of "Molotov" brought shouts of laughter from his audience. Evatt attacked the Communist Party as "totalitarian in method and antidemocratic in character." But as fast as he shed his red feathers, the Communists stuck them...
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...RATE PORK SALES to help farmers dispose of the huge hog surplus are catching on in the Midwest. Aided by bankers and local merchants, farmers near Vinton Iowa put 20,000 Ibs. of pork on sale to consumers at prices 8? to 10? below wholesale levels, were sold out in minutes. Dozens of other towns in the hog belt are planning similar sales...