Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canebrakes of Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with...
...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey came onstage last to charm the delegates out of their chairs with a whiplash, give-'em-hell attack on the Eisenhower Administration's "inertia and catering to specially privileged Republicans." His speech drew 40 rounds of applause, and as it ended, 3,000 delegates roared and stomped their approval for twelve minutes. Clearly, Humphrey, the candidate who had been all but counted out by some of his fellow hopefuls, was way ahead with the U.A.W...
...year's harvest will hit 4.4 billion bu., 17% more than in record 1958. Iowa, the No. 1 corn state, expects an 827-million-bu. harvest, up from the record 669 million last year. Illinois, No. 2, anticipates 696 million bu., up from 599 million. Even No. 3. Minnesota, looks for 360 million bu., an increase of 15% over last year, despite a severe drought...
...research project will be carried out by a University of Minnesota staff under Henderson's direction. It is jointly financed by the Ford Foundation and the Upper Mid-West Research and Development Council, a group of businessmen concerned with the serious lag in their area's economy...
Areas to be studied are Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...