Word: alton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...
...scholarly, 64-year-old President D'Alton Corry Coleman, who joined C.P. as a clerk 44 years ago, is not being stampeded into generous sharing of these profits. He wisely has used net to pay off large chunks of funded debt, and has hoarded cash for postwar rehabilitation. New trains and tracks will be needed by the railway. The ocean fleet, now acknowledged to have lost the 42,348-ton world-cruise liner Empress of Britain in the North Atlantic and the plucky 21,517-ton Empress of Canada in the shark-infested waters off West Africa, must...
...excuse for growing cotton was put forward in the South last week. Dr. Edward Willam Alton Ochsner, highly respected surgeon of Tulane University, wrote Governor Thomas Bailey of Mississippi that cotton is the best material for stitching up wounds...
...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...
...railroad president in the country would buy "Pioneer." For months it lay useless in the Chicago and Alton yards. Then, in the spring of 1865, on the day Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...