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Title
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Regions: Missouri Valley Project Goes On while Politicians Debate
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Description
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Article about the federal and private flood control projects on the Missouri River watershed, with a map of dam sites, photos. Includes discussion on the hyroelectric power and other benefits to be gained with the modifications, such as flood control, soil conservation, navigation, and so forth. Description also of the political debates over property rights and the competing Pick-Sloan and Hope-Aiken plans.
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Date
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1954-03-20
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri AFL, CIO Join Despite Teamster Bid
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Description
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Article about the recent merger of the two large labor unions in Missouri, the AFL and the CIO, into one, called the AFL-CIO, or locally as the Missouri State Labor Council, and the ramifications of the merger, especially on the Teamsters' Union left out after attempting to merge as well.
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Date
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1956-04-21
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri Waltzes to New Bed
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Description
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Illustrated map and article about the shifting of the Missouri River (partly from flooding and partly engineered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers) between Saint Joseph, Missouri (about 50 miles north of Kansas City), and Elwood, Kansas, and cutting off "Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph's airport and former Air Force base," in a change of state boundary lines, etc.
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Date
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1952-07-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Regions: How Missouri Does It
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Description
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Article about Missouri's state "industrial development program" and several "local development corporations" set up in accordance with it in towns and cities, including Donald Burr, "an industrial assistant in the Division of Resources & Development" bringing "the president of Kuhlman Tool & Die Casting Co., Kansas City, to Monroe," Missouri for a tour of the town resulting in construction of a factory there.
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Date
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1950-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Local Business: Grudge Fight
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Description
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News about a possible labor union strike in Saint Louis, Missouri, by the CIO and Teamsters' Union, over the gubernatorial race.
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Date
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1952-09-27
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
