Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHILDREN'S PROGRAM : Omaha's KOWH, for We March with Faith, an educational program...
...Earl of 'Halifax, retiring British Ambassador, faltered momentarily as he talked with Omaha newspaper reporters about the proposed $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan to Britain, but recovered with diplomathematical aplomb: "I've always been bad on sums. . . . Let's see, what did I say, millions or billions...
...through the University of Kansas; even when they moved to Washington, and stooped, big-eyed Ray Clapper became first a crack U.P.man, then a Scripps-Howard columnist, they collaborated. Every morning, Olive sat on his bed while they criticized his efforts to "write it for the milkman in Omaha." After breakfast she would sit him down to make voluminous entries in his diary...
...TIME correspondent wrote: "Omaha's biggest business is almost paralyzed. The city sounds different, smells different. One of the oldest, most colorful operations is stalled. Union Stock Yards, usually a hustling, bustling, bawling, bleating center of activity, is almost silent...
Before long, the committee hopes to transfer the power company to the Omaha Public Power District, thus completing the deal for public ownership. Said Maenner: because his group bought the property a year ago, the public will pay $2,158,000 less...