Word: tipton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently, the Executive of Harvard Publications are: George J. Feeney '50, Editor in Chief; Edward Tipton Kenyon '50, Managing Editor; Donald M. Landis '50, Business Manager; R. Johnson Shortlidge '50, Register Editor and Sports Editor; Edward B. Ayres '50, Activities and Organizations Editor; Thomas Holmquist '50, Biographies Editor; Andrew S. Kaufman '51, Assistant Business Manager; Geoffrey Groff-Smith '50, Photographic Manager; and David P. Lighthill '50, Feature Editor...
...loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
...Tipton's farmers had the relaxed air of men who have plenty of meat in their smokehouses, though they weren't the kind to crow about it. "I don't aim to get caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going...
...Worry. Farmer Orr could afford to be cautious. As spring came, Tipton's banks bulged with the accumulated prosperity of seven fat years. The county's 14,000 citizens had socked away $10 million in Government bonds during the war, "and it's still back there in those lockboxes, at least $8 or $9 million of it," said Russell Martin, president of Tipton's largest bank. Many mortgages had been paid off in full; the per capita debt was the lowest in 25 years...
...After years of trying to discourage motorists who chase their trucks. Tipton (Iowa) firemen got even. A fire engine with siren screaming led 100 hot-eyed drivers into the Cedar County fair grounds, kept them circling the track until it was packed hard enough for some midget automobile races the department had sponsored...