Word: wichitas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hass had become a statewide story. Kansans who had laughed for years over flouting the law, but had done little to get it off the books, growled at the severity of Hass's penalty and at the hypocrisy of other citizens who vote dry and drink wet. In Wichita, a group of businessmen started a fund to buy a new car for Scapegoat Hass. By this week they had raised more than $800 and formed a club called: "It Could Happen to Me." They hoped that the incident would help Kansas overthrow its 67-year-old prohibition...
Selling Point. In Wichita Falls, Tex., a thief broke into Salesman Rex Smith's auto, stole a dozen auto-theft alarms...
Collecting customers was harder, until Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a comprehensive cross-section for Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Friends Service Committee Americans now in Finland is handsome, young Mary Barclay Howarth of Wichita, Kans., who has been there for two years. Said she last week to a U.S. visitor...
...Texas children were rifling desks at home for old letters, rummaging through attics and barns. They got oldtimers to tell them stories of the old days. One San Antonio high school helped preserve an old Mexican settlement, La Villita, around which San Antonio grew. A Junior Historian in Wichita Falls, Tex. made the fattest find of all: a pioneer settler's 82-volume diary...