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Pilot Haven idled his four piston engines, but the B-50, instead of slowing up, flew even faster, on nothing but the power of the whining metal cigar. The bomber's air-speed indicator edged up to 370 m.p.h. Over Bangor, Me., an F-86 jet fighter, part of the air-raid interceptor defense, streaked up through the clouds, swept in close to investigate the B-50's strange, roaring belly...
Harvey Slom Ginsberg '52, of Bangor, Maine and Kirkland House, was chosen Advocate President for 1951 in the annual Advocate elections last night...
After Pearl Harbor, faced with a drastic cut in radio production, Swanson and his partners scraped up enough cash to start another entirely separate company at Bangor, Mich. ("out of the high tax and labor shortage area"). There they started to produce for war. They manufactured such war goods as radio crystals and control units for target planes and eventually became one of the Signal Corps' biggest suppliers. At war's end, Swanson hopped into the rapidly expanding television industry, and opened a Los Angeles plant to produce tuners...
...chestnut soil (dark brown soil), then to rich chernozem (fertile black soil), and finally declines to thin podsols (grey, leached, acid soil) - see map. Russia's huge long swatch of chernozem is the biggest in the world, but most of it lies north of the latitude of Bangor, Me. (45th parallel) which means that its yield is much lower than the same type of land in the U.S.'s Midwestern wheat belt...
Died. Dr. William Freeman Snow, 75, prime mover since its founding in 1914 of the syphilis-fighting American Social Hygiene Association, onetime (1927-34) president of the National Health Council; in Bangor...