Word: minn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn...
...Gypsum Co. of Chicago, and "Gypsolite" (Universal Gypsum Co., Chicago) are of gypsum suitably treated and squeezed into board-like sheets easily handled by carpenters. They compete as economical alternatives for ordinary lathing and sheathing with "Beaverboard" (Beaver Products Co., Buffalo) and "Linofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.). Architects thoroughly appreciate these...
...that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might have taken along "Balsam Wool" (Wood Conversion Co., Cloquet, Minn.), "Fibrofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.), "Corkboard" (Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co., Pittsburgh), "Insulite" (Insulite Co., Minneapolis), "Garrettite" (C. S. Garrett Co., Philadelphia), "Quilt" (Samuel Cabot Co., Boston), or "Mineral Wool" (U.S. Mineral Wool Co., Manhattan)-all of which are excellent insulating materials widely used in building...
...rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield (Ohio), St. Paul (Minn.), Auburn (N. Y.) and Milwaukee (Wis.). Raw materials come from company-owned iron ore mines in Minnesota, coal and coke works in Kentucky and at Chicago, furnace and steel mills at Chicago, timber lands and sawmills in Missouri, sisal plantations in Cuba. The S. S. Harvester, 10,000 tons, affords...
...Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans" in his bailiwick. For 14 years part of his job was prosecuting blind-pigs, but he was not known as a drastic prohibitionist?rather as a man who "plugged...