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Billings
City (pop., 1996 est.: 91,000), S central Montana. Billings was established on the Yellowstone River in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railway and named for its president. It is now a trading and shipping point for wool, livestock, and agriculture. Nearby Pictograph Cave State Monument has prehistoric artifacts.


Dillinger
U.S. bank robber. Born in Indianapolis, he was arrested in 1924 in the foiled holdup of a grocery and sentenced to prison, where he learned the craft of bank robbery. He was paroled in 1933. In four months he led his gang in five bank robberies in Indiana and Ohio. Again captured and incarcerated, he escaped prison with the help of allies and returned to bank robbery until his recapture. In 1934 he used a fake wooden pistol to effect his escape from an Indiana prison. His bank robberies continued until he was killed in an ambush involving the FBI, Indiana police, and a friend and brothel madam (the "lady in red"), who drew him to Chicago's Biograph Theater.


fulling
Process that increases the thickness and compactness of wool by subjecting it to moisture, heat, friction, and pressure until shrinkage of 10-25% is achieved. Shrinkage occurs in both the warp and weft (see weaving), producing a smooth, tightly finished fabric that may be so compact that it resembles felt.


Ballinger
U.S. secretary of the interior (1909-11). Born in Boonesboro, Iowa, he moved to Washington and served as the reform mayor of Seattle (1904-6) before being appointed federal commissioner of the land office. As secretary of the interior, he sought to make public resources more available for private exploitation. Implicated in a fraudulent Alaskan land-claims scheme, he was cleared after a congressional investigation but resigned in 1911. The episode split the Republicans between conservatives led by Pres. W. H. Taft and progressives loyal to T. Roosevelt.


fishing
Sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Fishing is as old as the human ability to use tools to capture prey. The first significant modern innovations, incl. use of a reel, a rod with line guides, and a hook with an offset point, came in the late 17th and early 18th cent. Horsehair was used as line until the mid-19th cent, when it was replaced by textile materials, in turn replaced in the 1930s by nylon. Wood and bamboo rods yielded to rods of fiberglass and other synthetic materials. Forms of sport fishing practiced today include fly fishing (freshwater), in which a fly-like hook is repeatedly cast upon the water surface to attract biting fish; bait fishing (fresh- and saltwater), in which live or artificial bait is set or drawn below the surface; and big-game fishing (saltwater), in which heavy-duty tackle is used to land large marine species (incl. tuna, marlin, and swordfish) from a motorized boat.


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