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Word: minne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Well, anyway, poor Henry has one distinction: he was the first of our Vice Presidents to be "assassinated" in office. C. J. HARVEY Nashwauk, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...brigade works like this: A. C. Ruthenbeck, a tall, ruddy farmer from Tracy, Minn., took delivery of his combine at Enid, Okla. last month. There he began cutting 200 acres of wheat for Farmer Fred Ash. Though the stand was heavy, the yield up to 30 bushels an acre, the sturdy combine averaged five acres an hour. At that rate Ruthenbeck cheerfully figured he could cut 5,000 acres during the summer-long northward trek to his Minnesota home. At an average charge of $2 to $3 an acre, Ruthenbeck's gross will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Harvest Brigade | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Tan Yanks | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Room 301 in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn, has light-cream walls and a southeast-corner view, the patient noted. To the Clinic staff, even to his brisk, dark-haired Nurse Mary Conway, the patient was just another one of the 100,000 who come to Mayo's each year. But to Franklin Roosevelt, anxiously reading the wired reports, the man in 301 was much more important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Assistant President | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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