Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on landing. In the drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped...
Playing the toughest schedule in the U.S.. Notre Dame toppled or tied five major college conference champions last year, and this year has managed to be "up" each Saturday for a backbreaking intersectional schedule that included Oklahoma. Purdue. Pittsburgh. Georgia Tech and Navy. This week it is Pennsylvania. Still to come: North Carolina. Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist...
...flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Big Seven Champion Oklahoma slip past Texas, 19-14, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl...
GASOLINE price wars will probably get livelier because of the unseasonably high stocks on hand. In Oklahoma City, prices dropped from 30?to 23? a gal. and one eight-station chain has suspended operations; in some Pennsylvania areas, prices for regular grades have been chopped more than half, from...
When Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill of the Chicago Daily News first received his orders to London, he knew that life was going to be hard for his teen-age stepson Jonathan. After attending U.S. public schools in Oklahoma and New York, and the American School in Tokyo, Jonathan knew no Latin, was way behind in French and algebra. Besides, as his father said, he "declined all invitations to study, and expressed the belief that all teachers were jerks." But by last week, after only two months in Castle Hill College, in a London suburb, Jonathan had changed-so much...