Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence I have seen to date leads me to believe that Bert Lance, his family and friends regarded the Calhoun First National Bank as their playpen-to be used as they pleased." Another hearing on bank regulation starts this week before the Senate Banking Committee, chaired by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire...
...could appear in bookstores throughout the country: not satisfied with the coverage given the Harvard Law School in Paper Chase and Love Story, G.P. Putnam's Sons had to jump into the act--an act that doesn't exist, say, for law schools at the University of Wisconsin or Boston University...
...wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent. The U.S. cultivated ginseng industry is centered in Marathon County in central Wisconsin, which happens to have the welldrained, acidic soil ideal for growing ginseng. There, an estimated 65 farmers grow about 95% of cultivated U.S. ginseng...
...Overlines" A Wisconsin bank is asked by a customer for a loan $1.5 million larger than it can handle. If the bank has a larger correspondent bank, for instance Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago, it can ask Harris to participate in the loan. The arrangement benefits not only the Wisconsin bank, which keeps its local customer happy, but also Harris, which has no branch offices of its own in Wisconsin and would otherwise probably never have learned about the loan opportunity...
...over the Wisconsin city of Oshkosh darkened last week as swarms of flying machines-biplanes and Breezies, power gliders and Gyrocopters, delta wings and Aerodusters-cavorted and capered in the air like drunken dragonflies. The occasion: the 25th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), held at Wittman Field, where 430 homemade aircraft of every description registered for the festivities. Some, like Paul Sunday's 90%-completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph of a 1912 wood...