Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Field got for his money (guesstimated price: $100,000) was an old-fashioned print shop in Montgomery, Ala. and an old-fashioned farm journal that loses a nickel on every 25?-a-year subscription but makes it all back and more in advertising at $2.50 a column inch. Two of its eight pages are devoted to stodgy editorial matter, the rest to ads, some offering farm equipment, many hawking sex books, love drops, patent medicines...
Anniston, Ala...
Many a doctor contends that the only way to stamp out syphilis is to find and treat every syphilitic. Last week the city of Birmingham, Ala., having tried that simple-sounding formula, was ready to report: it works...
...business. In 1932 Ingalls was casting around for new outlets for the steel his Ingalls Iron Works Co. in Birmingham had been fabricating since 1910. One outlet, he decided, was a yard to build dredges and barges for coastal and river service. He built his own yard in Decatur, Ala...
...Commando") Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired "one man army," Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City, Ala...