Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
BETTY LYMAN Omaha...
Evidently it was quite a tough job running the Western Union line from Omaha to the Coast. It wasn't enough that they had Indians trying to gum up the works, but on top of this the Civil War was going strong and Moseby's raiders sent a few of the boys to help the Redskins and pick up a little extra ready cash. However, with Robert Young and Randolph Scott holding the fort for Don't Write Telegraph, they couldn't lose. Besides, W.U. had, as a further inspiration a young lady by the name of Virginia Gilmore...
...will see that his competitors' flying fortress is well made, properly tested, in a plant at Tulsa. Chrysler's pick was Glenn Martin's new 6-26, a two-engined medium bomber (TIME, Jan. 6) to be assembled by Martin men in a new plant at Omaha...
...Brower is a piccolo-sized (140 lb.), tuba-voiced salesman who once dealt in dry goods in Omaha, now is an insurance broker in Shenandoah, Iowa. Three weeks ago Brower heard of a law* which requires the Government to advance premiums for two years (in the form of interest-bearing certificates) on life insurance up to $5,000 carried by National Guardsmen, volunteers and conscripts taken into the Army...