Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., uses a converted Greyhound bus as a mobile personnel office, sends it on week-long excursions to recruit female help from small towns in Minnesota and neighboring states. The bus is outfitted much like a railroad parlor car, with couches, tables and a galley. It enables Cargill to avoid setting up recruiting offices in motels, an arrangement that tends to make parents of prospective employees wary...
Rogers had followed just such a policy. He had left the East and gone to Minnesota, where he "set up his lightning rod" as expert on foreign policy. When the State Department decided that it needed a man from the Midwest Rogers was the logical choice...
...rampaging Red Lake River, Crookston had survived relatively undamaged. Other communities in the upper Midwest were not so fortunate. Swollen by the heaviest accumulation of melting snow in history, the region's rivers gushed over their banks and crested in five states -North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Tumbling gigantic chunks of ice before them, the torrents inundated vast areas, causing at least $31 million in damage and driving more than 22,000 people from their homes. Fortunately, only eight people died...
...part series in Harper's, Jeremy Larner, a novelist who helped write McCarthy's campaign speeches, takes a more critical view of McCarthy as a captive of his own personality, his obsession with style and his upbringing among German Catholics in central Minnesota.*The German immigrants, Larner writes, accented "regulation and reserve, scholastic superiority, and security in judging others who succumb to worldly experience." McCarthy's training at Minnesota's St. John's University stressed that in a God-ordered universe one gets in touch with God only through laboriously acquired "right reason." In this...
...N.C.C. is already making an impact far beyond Many Farms. Chippewa Indians from Minnesota have visited the reservation to investigate and are now working to establish a community college of their own. At least eight Pueblo tribes in New Mexico are talking seriously of following the Navaho example...