Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
...yards and eleven Navy yards, from Bath, Me. to Cavite, P. I. Most of the big ships (17 battleships, twelve carriers, 54 cruisers) are being built on the Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that...
Winner of the grand prize of $50 was B. E. Robinson, of Birmingham Ala., for an essay on "Chauning's Causes for the Fall of the Confederacy". Three others were presented with checks for $25 by Mr. Malone: Arthur Devaney, of Saginaw, Mich.. for an essay on "Emerson: the Summum Bonum and the Style": J. C. Rulley, of Washington, D.C., who wrote on "Proletarian Literature in the United States": and J. D. Grandine, of Crandon, Wis., whose essay was on "The Failure of Cotton Diplomacy during the Civil War." Two other yearlings were given Honorable Mention in the contest...
According to a Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald columnist, Mr. White wrote: "In two of our chapters-New York and Washington-we have a bunch of warmongers and ... no way to oust them...
When Yale played Virginia at New Haven last October, many a Northern football fan was a little startled to see Virginia rooters waving Confederate flags. It was just a gag. But in Montgomery, Ala. last week, the Stars & Bars waved in earnest...