Word: 147th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's 147th General Hospital, Franklin Roosevelt made a tour of five wards, talking to the wounded, telling them they would soon be home. He stopped beside the bed of a young soldier suffering from a gangrenous lung condition. A tube was carrying penicillin and a potassium permanganate solution to the soldier's veins. "I hope you'll be feeling better soon," the President said. "Then you'll have a chance to come home. We're waiting for you." But the young soldier was so sick he just lay there staring at the ceiling with...
...melancholy end of a shipbuilding era last week. In Henry J. Kaiser's record-holding Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. Yard No. 2 in California, the S.S. Benjamin Warner (named after the father of Hollywood's Warner brothers) slid into San Francisco Bay. It was the 1,147th Liberty ship launched on the West Coast-and the last...
...147th year, the U.S. made good its annual treaty obligations to Indian tribes of the Six Nations. In Salamanca, N.Y., Indian Agent Charles H. Berry started distribution of $4,500 in cash and calico to 5,085 Senecas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas and Oneidas. (The Mohawks never signed the treaty, get nothing.) New York tribesmen always take their share in calico. This year they find themselves shortchanged. Thanks to inflation, they get only three yards of calico apiece, instead of the five yards each got last year...