Word: bay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinch. In Bay City, Mich., Peter Pipe took over as president of the Master Plumbers' Association...
Only three key points will be kept in full operating status: Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. To reinforce these, four other bases-Adak in the north, Midway in the Central Pacific, Leyte Samar and Subic Bay in the Philippines-will be maintained at reduced strength and capacity...
Even George, who normally regards the sport of Kings with lackluster eyes, was beginning to show some interest as three of his nine horses copped purse after purse. Between them Hypericum, a nighty three-year-old, and the well-mannered bay four-year-olds Kingston and Rising Light had earned some ?9,437 for the King to date, making him easily Britain's top money winner...
...huge elevator at bleak, ice-locked Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat...
...American Gomorrah, half-deserted by winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...