Word: scottsbluff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
...rich North Platte valley just outside Scottsbluff, Neb., Harold Baltes bought a farm for $364 an acre, roughly three times the local price in 1939. In the rolling, rocky hill country north of San Antonio, the old ranchers were moving back like Indians in the face of the assault from pale-faced city slickers. Land worth $8 to $10 an acre a few years back was going for as much as $100. Drawled one old rancher: "They want a place where they can keep some horses, have a big hat, boots and station wagon with their name on the side...
Owen R. Smith of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Kirkland House, has been named second assistant swimming manager. He will become varsity manager in his Senior year...