Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrower is leaving for a job in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, while Sides will return to a teaching position at Phillips Andover Academy. Both Harrower and Sides worked with upperclassmen...
Texas and Oklahoma...
...revising their previous estimates of the 1949 harvest, boosted the total possible yield to 1,336,976,000 bushels, just under 1947's alltime record of 1,364,919,000 bushels. But the actual harvest, which so far had only gone through a few counties in Texas and Oklahoma, was surprisingly turning out anywhere from 30% to 50% smaller than Brannan's estimates (the farmers blamed joint worms, rain and hail for cutting it down). Nevertheless, if the crop proved to be as big as predicted, Brannan is expected to set wheat quotas for next year-first limitation...
...still booming. In the first five months this year, its sales of $305 million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...
...South walked out and formed their own denomination-the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1907 the Baptists north of the Mason-Dixon line united and called themselves the Northern Baptist Convention. Since then, all attempts at uniting the two have failed. At the Southern Baptist Convention's meeting in Oklahoma City last month, some delegates expressed alarm at reports of a forthcoming merger between the Northern Baptists (1,500,000 members) and the 1,700,000-member Disciples of Christ, which has many churches in the Southern states...