Word: minnesota
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Since India and Pakistan became independent just one year ago, 561 of 562 princely states have joined either one dominion or the other: The holdout is Hyderabad, about the size of Minnesota, whose ruler, the Nizam, is said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
Other steel companies have followed Republic's lead. All told, mining companies have spent more than $40 million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...
...Minnesota, Harold Stassen finally came out for the re-election of Joe Ball, whom he had appointed to the Senate eight years ago. Ball had angered Stassen four years ago by supporting Franklin Roosevelt for reelection, has since differed with him on many issues, notably on labor legislation and aid to Europe. But Joe Ball needed all the help he could get to beat able Hubert Humphrey, Democratic mayor of Minneapolis...
Later in the summer, Professor Johannes Brondsted, a Viking expert from Denmark, will stop by and look over the findings. He will also judge other "Norse" relics (mostly suspect) such as "mooring holes" on Cape Cod, and the Kensington stone, with its alleged runic inscriptions, which was found in Minnesota...
...debate was on. The drawling voices of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama laid the anxieties and defiance of the South before the convention of their party. The vernaculars of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Minnesota shouted the North's challenge...