Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williamson, for instance, finding that no birth record of Waldron-Dennis was available in Seattle, was able to establish Aug. 10, 1905 as his birth date by digging through the public school records. From old Seattle city directories he found four addresses where the Waldron family had once lived. After ringing a score of doorbells in these neighborhoods and making dozens of telephone calls, he turned...
...airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last Aug. 29. Another 202 broke a wing spar the same day but landed safely...
Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...
Drama-starved Washingtonians approved; for the past eight months, the Negro-exclusion issue has left the capital without a professional theater (TIME, Aug. 9). Into the library's finely detailed, 270-seat reproduction of a roofless, balcony-ringed Elizabethan playhouse (which had housed many a learned lecture, but never a play), ticket holders crowded for seven sold-out performances of Julius Caesar. Television cameras moved in for an eighth performance...
...Aug. 15. Poor Bob is annoyed with his teeth...