Word: barrowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st...
Well known to the police of London's East End is 25-year-old Costerboy John Thomas Cain. Often enough they have had him up for piddling misdemeanors, blocking traffic with his barrow, chucking unsold vegetables about at the day's end. Last week, however, the Metropolitan Police would have looked the other way if he had overturned his barrow in Piccadilly Circus. For John Thomas Cain was sporting one of the highest awards for gallantry that his country can give a civilian, the George Medal. He is, so far, the youngest Briton to wear...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis Barrow, registering his full name in Detroit, was asked what branch of the service he would like to join. "I ain't choosy," he said...
...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...
...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...