Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...
Later, in the well-packed auditorium, Harry Truman began in his best cracker-barrel manner. The last time he had been in St. Paul (a month before election) "was quite a time," said Truman. "Didn't anybody think I'd be back here addressing you within one year from that Election Day as President of the United States. But here...
Seaman Williams was hazy about what happened next. He never reported back to the submarine base for duty, but he never left it, either...
...prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
Tigner began calling: "Bolivia 927 . . . Bolivia . . . Bolivia . . . turn left . . . turn left . . . Traffic, Eastern DC-4 on final approach and below!" The P-38 barreled on toward destruction. Not until the last seconds did Tigner switch back to the DC-4's channel (its pilot could not hear his talk to the fighter, had no means of knowing a plane was bearing down on him from above) and order: "Turn left! P-38 is traffic!" The big plane began to turn...