Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri, even drier than disastrous 1936. This year, so far, has been worse. In the 22 months since December 1951, the moisture deficiency in the southern half of Missouri amounts to a million tons of water for every square mile of tillable land. Said Charlie Williford, U.S. weatherman in Springfield: "All we need is five inches of snow for a week, and a cloudburst in between...
...trucks are hauling water to farms in almost every conceivable kind of container. Thousands of farmers, running out of grain and hay, are dumping part or all of their cattle on the market at sacrifice prices. For the past two months, the stockyards in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield have been jammed to the gates with calves that should have been kept on the farm...
...Korea. Eighteen families, including the Pates, accepted the opportunity to plead with their sons to come home. Fortnight ago, Howard Pate, 47, his wife Zady, Arlie's 18-year-old sister, Beulah, and Mrs. Jeanette Daley, Arlie's aunt, were driven up to station WCBS in Springfield...
...Wesleyan at Middletown 2:00 p.m. Fri., Oct. 23 Dartmouth 2:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 28 M.I.T. 3:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 31 Amherst at Amherst 2:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 4 Boston Univ. 2:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 7 Princeton 10:30 a.m. Wed., Nov. 11 Springfield at Springfield 3:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 14 Brown 12:00 Fri., Nov. 20 Yale at New Haven 2:00 p.m. FRESHMAN SOCCER Sat., Oct., 3 Tabor Acad. 2:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 7 Milton Acad. at Milton 3:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 10 Belmont Hill School...
Modern Times. In Springfield, Ill., five-year-old Marsha Howard reported to her family that kindergarten offered only "tricycles and bicycles and a little red wagon for little kids," refused to go back because "they don't teach typing or arithmetic...