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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Satan's Tool | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Steeg, of Sources of Supply "distinction" fame, is ill at Fort Banks station hospital with a "strep" infection. Here's to you, Al--get well soon and give the bug a "distinctive" beating...

Author: By Norman S. Gilbert, | Title: ASOTELLITES | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

...Pont, in charge of the Government's operations, expects to expand the construction crew to over 10,000 within a month, and eventually maintain an operating personnel of a few thousand less. Charlestown realtors looked hungrily for a housing boom. But fortnight ago Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from financing a housing project and Charlestowners had the choice of building a potential ghost town or letting nearby Louisville, Jeffersonville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Ghost Towns Past & Future | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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