Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stair Climber. A two-wheeled, power-driven hand truck has been developed by the Valley Craft Products Inc., Lake City, Minn. to take heavy loads up or down stairs or ramps. A special ratchet mechanism allows the "Stair Cart" to climb stairs, is powerful enough to lift a 200-lb. load straight up a 4-ft. wall. Price: about...
DAVID LURIE Northfield, Minn...
...request, based on an editorial feature which appeared, in yesterday's CRIMSON, asks that the ADA's vice-chairmen in the Senate "take appropriate action either through intervention with the Executive departments concerned, or through the introduction of bills." The vice-chairman are Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Herbert Lehman (D-N.Y.), and Wayne Morse...
Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...
...little (pop. 500) Royalton, Minn., Vernon J. Pick was a successful small businessman. To expand his electric-motor-repair business, he had put in $40,000, all the money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...