Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GLEN PITTMAN Casper...
...troubles, last week the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., which has gone $6,000,000 into the red insuring wheat against drought, announced that it was canceling next year's crop insurance in nine dried-out Colorado. Texas and New Mexico counties, covering 3,751 policyholders. Said Farmer George Pittman of Lamar, Colo., who saw his 642 acres of winter wheat blow away this year: "That crop insurance saved me. It was the only security I had in getting a loan. Now the bank has turned me down. I've got nothing...
...ranks of U.S. artists. This week the Corcoran opened its 23rd biennial show-a lavish spread of 226 paintings-and announced the four prizewinners. The $2,000 First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite), and William Congdon came fourth with a chic peek at Venice, done in glimmering impasto...
...Sergeant John A. Pittman...
...Pittman is the third to win the medal in Korea for smothering a grenade, and the only survivor. In World War II, 13 Army men won the medal for the same courageous deed; only one lived...