Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome, slick-paper magazine, America Illustrated, which is printed in Russian and sold in Russia for 15 rubles (90 cents). Of the first issue. 20,000 copies were distributed; OWI got glowing reports from Vladivostok, Murmansk and Tiflis. Last week it got reports, not so glowing, from Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas...
...Omaha and Wichita were sizzling over an article in the magazine entitled "Profile of America," which had somehow reached the Midwest in translation. Describing the prairie land, it said: "The people in it are almost exclusively farmers. . . . Industry is almost nonexistent. Raw materials and fabricated goods must be imported from other states. . . . The climate of the region is very dry and it sometimes happens that a drought lasts for ten years...
...From Omaha's Chamber of Commerce came a yowl of rage. "The OWI description implies that the Midwest is a drought-stricken, poverty-ridden territory. It gives no thought to the important contribution Nebraska has made to the winning of the war. Nor does it take into consideration the rapid industrial expansion of the Midwest in recent years...
...Sullivan's right hand in Manila is Commander Byron S. Huie Jr., 40, a former Treasury attorney whose salvage units rescued 2,340 men from the waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their men in easy informality, sometimes have to argue their zealous divers into knocking off work. The strangest fruit they have plucked out of Manila harbor: a Jap ship filled with glass marbles...
...high that it was more profitable to use corn to fatten pigs than to sell it. Result: a large hog population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives for the production of grain, for converting enough of it into meat and for getting that meat to market...