Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last of the 35,000-tonners (Alabama) will be launched in three months. The battlewagons that will follow her will be still more fearsome. Two (Iowa and New Jersey) will displace 45,000 tons. Two others now on the ways (Missouri and Wisconsin) will be still bigger. Planned but not yet on the ways are seven more. Two will be 45,000 tons or bigger; the other five will be the biggest, most powerful ever launched-58,000 tons. The Big Five (Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana) will not be laid down until oversize ways have been prepared...
Vern Miller, mountainous left tackle on Dick Harlow's squad, who weighed in after the Yale game at 292 pounds, has been invited to play in the annual North-South game scheduled for December 27 in Montgomery, Alabama...
...pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South's surplus sweet potatoes. In his laboratory he and his assistants also make paints and dyes from the red Alabama clay, the oil of the Alabama peanut, with which he paints the natural phenomena he sees around him: birds, fruit, flowers, mountain vistas...
...government. The army reportedly is ready to take over the pits. The President is believed to have discussed the coal crisis yesterday with Secretary of the War Henry L. Stimson and Major General Robert C. Richardson, Commander of the Seventh Army Corps stationed at Birmingham, Alabama, in the heart of the captive industry...
...drawled. "Ah come fum Birmingham in Alabama...