Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge will send one of its fire engines--incognito--on an 1100 mile safari to Kenosha, Wisconsin, early next year...
...apparatus, damaged in an accident earlier this year, will be driven home to its creators in Wisconsin for an estimated $5,000 repair. The engine's route has not yet been determined, but fire officials in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Indianapolis, possible stopping places on the trek, plan to give the Cambridge apparatus a warm reception...
Sweaters & Philosophy. It was his concern about the lack of a sounding board for many "worthwhile ideas" that brought him into publishing. His father, the Wisconsin-born son of an Alsatian immigrant, built up a fortune in textiles and banking in Chicago, helped found and support the isolationist America First Committee. Young Henry studied at M.I.T., the University of Bonn and Harvard graduate school in preparation for a career in the family textile business. Later, he founded a successful sweater factory, and married the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Alfred Scattergood, a well-known Quaker...
Nothing enrages the sophisticate more than olives, onions or other hors d'oeuvres in a martini. But a twist of lemon peel is usually acceptable. In faraway Wisconsin, the latest cult insists on an anchovy-stuffed olive...
...variation of the plan is currently being used at Kenyon, and is being considered at Colgate, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Harding added. "The program is definitely popular in the mid-West," he said, "but the only drawback is finance...