Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writers' Camp. In Camp Rucker, Ala., busy Sergeant Russell E. Harris kept up his newsy, three-letter-a-week correspondence with his wife, a busy WAC corporal in a barracks 300 yards away...
...deal to buy San Francisco's Pope & Talbot Inc., the West Coast's third biggest lumber and shipping concern, operator of Alcoa's Pacific fleet of nine ships. Through such a deal, Alcoa would acquire: 1) enough ships to water-haul alumina from its Mobile, Ala. plant to the West Coast, thereby saving enough on rail costs to cut prices; 2) huge clay deposits near Castle Rock, Wash., where it could set up its own alumina-from-clay plant...
...best U.S. coal for making oil now known (Birmingham, Ala. bituminous) yields 134 gallons of gas to the ton of coal. But even with the most efficient methods, gasoline from this coal still costs about 15? a gallon to produce, three times the cost of gasoline from petroleum...
...Decatur, Ala...
...first Negro fighter squadron in the Army Air Forces has seen action. This week Allied Headquarters in North Africa announced that among those present for the bombardment of Pantelleria was the outfit which began training at Tuskegee Institute (Ala.) in July...