Word: atchison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like dry spaghetti. Hundreds of cattle froze to death, and dairy farmers were forced to dump oceans of milk they could not get to market. In Lake Michigan, two Coast Guard cutters were trapped by giant ice floes. A 220-mile-long ice jam closed the Missouri River from Atchison, Kans., to Blair, Neb., backing up water and causing flooding in some places...
Daniel Lavette was born to chase the promise of America. He entered the world on the floor of a cold and drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed...
...hear that whistle down the line? I figure that it's engine number forty-nine. She's the only one that'll sound that way On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa...
Died. Eugene C. Pulliam, 86, conservative publisher of the Arizona Republic, the Indianapolis Star and several other newspapers; of a stroke; in Phoenix. Once a hustling young reporter for the Kansas City Star, at 23 he became editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion in Kansas and began building an empire that at one time or another included 46 papers...