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McAlester

(məkăl`ĭstər), city (1990 pop. 16,370), seat of Pittsburg co., SE Okla.; inc. 1899. A former coal-mining and farming community, McAlester has become a regional distribution center with a busy stockyard. Clothing, motor vehicles, chemicals, and animal feeds are manufactured and there is food processing. A munitions plant is nearby.
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Other features in this issue include Mark Hughes' and Jerri Mabray's story on the munitions makers of McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Nell Drumheller's look at the Army's missile test site at Kwajalein Atoll and Argie Sarantinos-Perrin's examination of the Army's efforts to eliminate its chemical-weapons arsenal.
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The Ohoyohoma (meaning "red woman" in Choctaw) clubs in the Oklahoma cities of Ada, Caddo, Durant, McAlester, and Tulsa offered membership to "all Indian women by blood" (Ohoyohoma Collection, outsize box 1).
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