Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another day. Last week Snap-Shooter Bob pressed Hesitant Homer too far, and the Senate echoed with high-priced debate. Subject: Dwight Eisenhower's brains...
...changed to the word 'one,' and . . . the word 'colleagues' changed to ... 'colleague.' " Undaunted, Homer Capehart unfurled the flag: "I would rather be a friend of the President of the United States without any brains than to be a friend of the Senator from Oklahoma with brains...
...told to give their age in years, months and days, were deprived of the right to vote if they were one day off; in Jefferson County, Ala. the Negroes were asked constitutional questions, such as on what date did the Tenth Amendment become effective, or on what date did Oklahoma become a state. Even in moderate North Carolina, a Negro woman in Northampton County was put to reading the state constitution and was disqualified when she "mispronounced several words...
...nation's 13 small feeder airlines, which cannot raise the money to buy the aircraft they need. Last week the feeders were in Washington, urging Congress to approve a pair of bills designed to help them out of their financing problems. One was a bill introduced by Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney that would give U.S. feeder airlines a Government guarantee on any loan from private sources; the other, in the House, would allow airline operators, like homeowners, to reinvest proceeds from the sale of old planes in new equipment without paying a capital-gains tax. Without such...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...