Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: Los Angeles, Chicago, Omaha, Tacoma, Duluth, Atlanta, Chattanooga, New Haven. Notably not among them: Boston...
...kitchen cabinets and brain trusts, the membership in Harry Truman's gang shifts and changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated for modern Washington. Wrinkled old Admiral Leahy no longer sees the President regularly. Even National Chairman Bob Hannegan has had to take a seat somewhat to the rear...
Stockmen, fearful that OPA ceilings might come back, poured cattle and pigs into Midwest packing plants. At one time trucks were backed up four miles at Omaha waiting to unload; drivers had to turn hoses on their stock to keep it from dying in the hot sun. As wholesale meat stocks rose to 80% of the wartime average, packers shied away from high prices. Result: 4,000 high-priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been...
Besieged by readers with their own ideas of someone too terrible to see, the Omaha World-Herald put up a modest prize. In one week it received 3,008 sketches. The winner (see cut) was by John P. Morton, 20, who is studying for the Catholic priesthood...
Humid. In the Omaha World-Herald, the weather bureau predicted: "Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers and warmer in the seat...