Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbus, Neb. (pop. 13,000) the mayors of 39 nearby communities gathered this week to break ground for an addition to Behlen Manufacturing Co. and pay their respects to its president, Walter Behlen, 53, a corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
...private school plan will be attacked this morning in Omaha, Neb. There, a two-judge federal court will hear an injunction plea seeking to stop the Little Rock School Board from leasing its properties to a private corporation...
Postage Due. In Columbus, Neb., G. G. Zellers received a letter mailed to him at 4:30 p.m. on April...
...cakes for the Japanese, caused the execution of a U.S. captain. But after the war, the case was bungled in U.S. legal machinery, and Provoo's conviction was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court. This time, the rap was no less appealing. Picked up in Lincoln, Neb. after an incident involving an 18-year-old boy, Provoo last week got a three-year sentence for sodomy...
...used to bribe me with nickels and dimes to play catch," he recalls. In 1950, a Negro league scout spotted him playing softball, and he became a barnstormer with the Kansas City Monarchs. "Ten-fifteen -maybe twenty thousand miles a year, and our biggest night was in Hastings, Neb.." says Banks. "We got $15 apiece...