Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loose ends and liking it. He was John Steuart Curry, famed painter of his native Midwest, and his rest was well deserved. Painter Curry had just finished two of the biggest painting jobs of his life. Off & on for the past three years, in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, and in the University of Wisconsin's law school, he had been hard at work on the heroic figures and lowering backgrounds of a new set of murals...
...with a 350,000,000-bushel wheat carryover. We filled up Baltimore, and we filled up Philadelphia, and we filled up Buffalo. Then down at Kansas City, they thought all we had to do to give them relief was to move about 15,000,000 bushels from Kansas City. Topeka had the same idea...
...Charles Bray, an insurance man in Topeka, Kans.: "MacArthur is the greatest general since Sergeant York...
...total original borrowings. Moreover, many a railroad learned well the No. 1 lesson of the '30s: that fixed charges, if not reduced in good times, are the surest way to go broke in bad. Southern Railway in December paid the last of $10,000,000 bank loans; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe retired $28,070,500 of 4½% convertible debentures; New York Central is planning to pay off $16,000,000 bank loans due in 1942-44. Boston & Maine, Baltimore & Ohio and others are buying their own bonds on the market...
...Topeka: One thing the Kansas press hasn't said and the people are saying is: "What the hell was the Navy doing out there?" Kansans can get over the unpleasant fact that we were given a good pasting, but they want to hit back. The Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm...