Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on a three-day pass, expected to ship overseas soon...
Help. In Washington, D.C., Alabama's Senator Lister Hill got an S O S from his daughter, a message saying, "Call Mamie at once or she may quit. Love, Little Henrietta." The Senator immediately phoned his cook, in Montgomery, Ala., persuaded her to stay...
...walked back in the next; they had entirely stalled production for more than 24 hours. In Chicago 600 employes at the Dodge plant, which makes 6-29 Superfortress engines, struck for three days, scurried back to work after a wounded Army private had pleaded with them. In Bessemer, Ala., male welders in the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. went on strike when the female welders got a raise. This was a full week's strike crop...
...Ala. 80 4 N.Dak...
Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot...