Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...
...Dillard a dollar goes thrice as far as in most private colleges. Tuition, room and board cost an undergraduate about $270 a year. Today Dillard has a $500,000 hospital (TIME, April 8), an able faculty (most popular: Sociologist Allison "Deepie" Davis, onetime Williams College valedictorian), a picked student body...
...mention Carl's cook. Carl told me that his cook was not only a good cook but a tremendous eater as well. Also a great eater was the cook of Mr. Allison, Carl's former partner in the PrestOLite business. One day, according to the story Carl told me, he made a wager with Mr. Allison on the gastronomic potentialities of their respective cooks. ... On the starting line Carl's cook said to Allison's cook, "What do we start wit, Nigger, hams?" Said Allison's cook to Fisher's cook, his eyes bulging...
Home has not been quite the same for the Arthur Roy Allisons of St. Louis since their daughter Elizabeth got married three years ago and went to live in Puerto Rico. Early last year, Mr. Allison hit on a great idea for keeping in touch with Elizabeth and her husband. He became a radio ham, W 9 FFB, with a radiophone transmitter in the basement. In San Juan, P. R., not far from Elizabeth, lived an active radio ham, Mrs. Jennie Ramirez, K 4 FOW. She and Neighbor Elizabeth hit it off fine, and for most of last year they...
Early one morning last December, W 9 FFB, got another urgent call from Puerto Rico. Little Roy Bernard was desperately ill. Allison filled the air with orders. Next day Mr. & Mrs. Rubeli and son landed swiftly at Lambert-St. Louis Airport, and Grandfather Allison rushed them to the hospital...