Word: barrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strictly from Hunger. In Ames, Iowa, two white rats, fed for two months a "typical coed's diet" (steak, mashed potatoes, cereal, bread & butter, navy beans, apple pie) by home-economics instructor Mary Barrick, died of malnutrition...
Royal Texans. Among them were two of the fighting Texans who crossed the Canadian border in such numbers before Pearl Harbor that the R.C.A.F. was sometimes called the "Royal Texas Air Force." Flight Lieut. "Tex" Barrick had thumbed his way from Odessa, Tex., to Canada, flown a Hurricane with the R.C.A.F., received a D.F.M. from the King. He intended to stay with the Canadians instead of joining the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said he: "You guys in Canada gave me a chance to fight, you spent a lot of money making me a pilot...