Word: soo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other candy bars, Curtiss Candy Co. President Otto Schnering is the U.S. Candy Bar King. As a shirtsleeved owner of such prize bulls as Netherhall Swanky Dan and St. James Philosophers Barbee, Schnering is also one of the nation's top farmers. Last week, on his 7,soo-acre Illinois domain, the Candy Bar King reached for a new crown. After seven years' research, grey-haired, blue-eyed Otto Schnering was ready to launch the first big-scale nationwide system of breeding cattle by artificial insemination...
Campbell was not the first to find uranium north of the Soo. In 1847, U.S. copper prospectors had come across uranium. Because uranium was useless at the time, they mentioned their find only vaguely in reports that lay moldering in Toronto libraries until Campbell looked them up last year...
Daughter of Metropolitan Opera Manager Edward Johnson, Fiorenza was born in Florence, educated in Europe and the U.S. She speaks French and Italian fluently, finds both an asset in her barnstorming. "Did you know," she asked, "that there are 5,000 Italians in the Soo? They love to hear their language spoken...
...makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through the Straits of Mackinac, and later the Soo...
...Disaster struck the soo-ft. Mississippi towboat Natchez, namesake of the steamboat which raced the Robert E. Lee. The swollen river's current smashed the vessel into a bridge pier near Greenville, Miss. She rolled over and sank in 30 seconds. Thirteen of her crew were saved; another 13 drowned...