Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...
...ALLEN R. KALB...
...plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts to a batch of war contract hungry New York State furniture makers...
Last week the Mississippi Senate, for the third time this session, fearlessly faced the issue. The opposition thundered that a bill permitting Sunday movies would "open the gates of hell." Roared Senator Joe Daws of De Kalb (pop. 866): The Pearl Harbor tragedy came about because sailors were not at their posts. "They were attending Sunday movies...