Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
...where unemployment clotted, the experience was painful. One such place was Jackson, Mich. Last week 4,500 of Jackson's 40,000 employables were out of work. That was nearly twice as many as last year at this time...
...seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
Beef & Peanuts. Wilson drives his own Cadillac in from Longmeadow, his rambling fieldstone house on Island Lake, Mich., burning up the highway like a preoccupied Barney Oldfield. Longmeadow is comfortably livable, with garage room for five G.M. cars and wall space for scores of pictures of the Wilson farms, horses, cattle, their six married sons & daughters and ten grandchildren...