Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
...established annual-wage plans without any prodding. As long ago as 1946, the Department of Labor counted 196 companies with plans for guaranteeing minimum employment or pay to their workers. One of the most successful of such plans is that of meat-packing George A. Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn. Started experimentally in 1931, it now covers some 8,000 employees. Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. began its famed "Share-the-Production" flexible annual-wage plan in 1935, has continued it, with slight modifications, ever since. Biggest and oldest of all plans is Procter & Gamble's. Begun...
...when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over-and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
Died. James A. Hard, 111, oldest veteran of the Civil War and next-to-last survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic (the last G.A.R. survivor: Albert Woolson, 106, of Duluth, Minn.); in Rochester, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...