Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formulated this view in a spirit of remarkable unanimity. On the basis of wide travel in Europe and other estoeric locations, they contend that the four mettropolitan areas they praise possess some sort of cultural maturity they find lamentably lacking in other thriving centres, such as Tulsa, Toronto or Topeka...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
Promissory Note. In Topeka, Kans., a grocery clerk at the C. & W. Market casually cashed a $20 check for a customer who signed it "U.R. Stuck," was when the check bounced...
...hard-hit railroads were steaming back fast. Chesapeake & Ohio earned $51.7 million or $6.36 a share in 1958-the fourth best net in its 122-year history. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe earned $5,139,849 in November compared to $3,659,613 a year earlier, and New York Central made $2,633,054 in November against a loss of $1,894,625 a year earlier...
Auntie Mame. The Mame's the same -that is, wonderfully wacky and intermittently funny-whether played by Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO or Sylvia Sidney in LINCOLN, TOPEKA, Sioux CITY and OMAHA...