Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would swing down to Sapulpa, Okla. to see his in-laws; up to Kansas City for a night's rest; out to Salt Lake City for the Governors' Conference; back to Owosso, Mich, to see his mother and to show his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to Tom Jr. He explained: "We've always wanted the boys to know the West as soon as they were old enough to appreciate...
Nine girls in the senior class at Royal Oak (Mich.) High School went through graduation ceremonies last week, but they didn't graduate. They got blank diplomas instead. It was Principal Miles W. Marks's way of punishing them for belonging to high-school sororities, illegal in Michigan...
Tucker could still float his stock, if he amended his registration to meet SEC's approval. But he had little time-unless WAA gave him another extension. There was little chance of that because Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, whose Michigan automakers regard Tucker as a wishful dreamer, had turned a probing eye on the whole deal. Ferguson said that he "assumed" the plant would revert to WAA if Tucker did not make good on July...
Originally a saltwater hunter, the lamprey long since learned to like fresh water, and established itself in Lake Ontario. In 1921 it appeared in Lake Erie, presumably detouring Niagara Falls via the Welland Canal. Step by step it pioneered the Lakes, reaching Lake St. Clair in 1930 and Lake Michigan in 1936. This year, the first lamprey was caught on the U.S. side of Lake Superior...
High Ball. Railroader Robert R. Young's plan for merging the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., which has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, was put into effect last week. The Pere Marquette, whose main lines are in Michigan, will hereafter be known as the C. & O. The new railroad system will have 5,000 miles of main-line track, be the seventh biggest in the U.S. in operating revenues...