Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Population: 5,091,000, less than half that of Pennsylvania; area: 352,141 square miles, about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. † Samples: a 15? can of U.S. pipe tobacco, $2.10; a medium-size refrigerator, $540; a Ford sedan...
...government asked William Townsend of the University of Oklahoma's Summer Institute of Linguistics to head a mission to teach the Indians to read and write their own languages. Townsend, a friendly, energetic man who learned his first dialect (Cakchiquel) in 1917 trying to sell Bibles to the Indians of Guatemala, went to Peru in 1945 with eleven assistants. Before they could teach, Townsend and his teachers had to learn the local tongues themselves. Deciding to concentrate on the 18 most widely used dialects, they set off for the jungle...
...will need to set a "fifth plate" for every four persons now consuming. Setting this fifth plate will demand an increase in cattle production, for instance, equivalent to all the present production of Texas plus Oklahoma and Minnesota, and enough more lambs to match the great production of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada combined. To produce this much food, every five acres of U.S. land must produce as much as six acres today-creating a tremendous need for more tractors, fertilizer, soil conditioners and other means of increasing food production. Millions of new houses, telephones, appliances and autos, plus more...
...When ex-Schoolteacher George McLaurin entered the University of Oklahoma law school, he was subjected to a number of indignities. He was forced to sit alone outside his classrooms; there was a special place for him in the library, a special table in the cafeteria, a special toilet he was supposed to use. But since then, other Negroes have gone to Oklahoma, and all such clumsy attempts at segregation have gradually disappeared. Says O.U.'s Vice President Roscoe Gate: "[This] success has depended largely on the student body...
...AMERICAN Palestine Trading Corp., a U.S. concern, is planning to spend $5,000,000 drilling for oil on a 500,000-acre lease in Israel. The cost will be divided by U.S. and Israeli investors, and the actual drilling will be done by Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc. of Oklahoma City...