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Word: wisconsin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin cheesemen, Midwest cattlemen and wheat-growers were hot under their open collars, fearing the impact of Argentine imports on their markets. Gov William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island's well-starched collar was also warm. Citing his State's lace industry, he threatened last month to take suit to the Supreme Court against the Trade Agreements Act's constitutionality. He too got back a politely savage letter, requesting him to note that the Rhode Island lace industry, under three years of agreements, had recovered almost 100% of its 1929 volume of $27,000,000. Senators Pittman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...votes for Amherst Alabama 13, Georgia Tech 7 "I'm a ramblin'' wrock" North Carolina 20, Duke 14 Sweet Lalanne Ohio State 7, Illinois 6 "We're loyal to you Illinois," but. .. L.S.U. 16, Auburn 7 No strike today Tennessco 28, Vanderbilt 0 Tops--even without Cafego Purdue 7, Wisconsin 0 Too many guns for weak Badgers Oklahoma 13, Missouri 7 One of day's best games Colgate 14, Syracuse 10 Red Raiders vastly improved Pitt 13, Nebraska 7 "Hall to Pitt," but not too quick Fordham 13, St. Mary's 0 Rams are too tough N.Y.U. 20, Georgetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SCORES FOR TODAY'S GAMES | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

Three thousand pounds of milk-fed turkey flesh have been collected from farms in Montana, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin, and are being rushed via special refrigerator cars to Cambridge. This season's gobblers are unusually large, ranging from 16 to 18 pounds apiece, and in the words of Westcott, are "check full of white meat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Plans Complete Turkey Dinner Thursday | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...liner Washington at Manhattan last week stepped a Wisconsin-born Britisher who looks more than a little like David Lloyd George: London's most famous merchant, 74-year-old H. Gordon Selfridge. To newshawks at the ship he said: "The opportunity to achieve . . . has been eliminated all over the world . . . everyone will be on salary . . . enterprise will be abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Out of Oxford Street | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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