Word: umatilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good to us again. She's gonna be a hon ey." The Agriculture Department agreed...
Absentee Ballots. In Umatilla, Ore., city fathers pondered the necessity of holding another mayoralty election after the official canvass showed that 361 votes had been cast-19 more than the total number of registered voters...
Crawling & Walking. For the next few years, M-K crawled, and after that, says Morrison, "it walked." In 1914, M-K made $14,000 on a $120,000 contract for Three-Mile Falls Dam on Oregon's Umatilla River. "Up to then," says Morrison, "I really had no idea that you could make money on a dam. But when we came out with more than 10%-what a lift!" The other great event of that year was his marriage to Anna Daly, who lived next door to Morrison's sister in Boise...