Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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York Corner is two miles from the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor, now a popular summer resort and the locale of one of the finest beaches on the Maine coast. Charles Plaisted was born in his father's home on nearby Cider Hill and, like him, became a farmer...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the...
Franklin Roosevelt made him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933, only to fire him six months later for objecting to Roosevelt's dollar devaluation policy. To friends, Roosevelt dusted Acheson off as a "lightweight." The lightweight promptly built up a small fortune as a corporation lawyer in Washington...
Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother...
In Hollywood, veteran Moviemaker Hal Roach became an enthusiastic convert to TV. He announced that his 15-acre Culver City studios (where Joan of Arc was filmed) will be turned over exclusively to the production of TV shorts.