Word: montana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heeled models. Callahan, who leases the "debutante" shoe department in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc., got Philadelphia's Cellini Shoes, Inc. to make the shoes, plugged them in the Sunday New York Times. In two weeks, mail orders came in from every state in the union-except Montana. Mystified, Callahan ran the same ad in the New York Herald Tribune. Again the orders poured in; still no sales in Montana, which calls itself the "Bonanza State...
...another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...
...Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming...
...bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon...
From his field headquarters in Denver Jim R. Button was deploying his forces last week like a general in pursuit of a highly mobile enemy. The enemy: billions of grasshoppers threatening U.S farm crops with devastation. Worst danger spots: large areas of Wyoming and Montana, with trouble building up in Arizona...