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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey and his chief speechwriter, scholarly Elliott V. Bell, decided te sleep on it, but took the precaution to wire New York for a full text of the F.D.R. speech. Reading it the next morning in the cold light of day and without benefit of the superb Roosevelt inflection, Speechwriter Bell thought his chief could ignore it. But then the telegrams began to pour in from irate Republicans offering advice on how to answer the President...
...kind of earnest frenzy came aboard the Dewey train. Dewey, Bell & Co. went to work, and wrote four consecutive drafts. Dewey stayed up until 2 a.m., polishing the phrases; researchers were up for four more hours, checking facts and dates, even calling Albany from tiny way stations for more ammunition...
...after his leap, only to be scalded by the bursting boiler. Twenty-eight other men, 26 of them soldiers, also died, and 40 were taken to hospitals. As next morning's sunlight cleared the fog, thousands of people gathered near the tracks, and a man with a tinkling bell on his automobile sold hundreds of Popsicles. Major W. J. Wegg, who had commanded the Air Forces group on the train, went to the Terre Haute House and wearily ordered a bottle of Budweiser. As he lifted it he said slowly: "This is home. Nothing like this should happen here...
Production of Curtiss' P-40 Warhawk, a version of the old P-40 with which the U.S. started the war, will be cut back, terminated by year's end. The P-61 Black Widow will keep its job as a night fighter. Bell's P-63 Kingcobra, which has a 37-mm. cannon among its armament, will be made principally for shipment to Russia...
...Michigan State decided it was time to resume operations after a year's absence from the gridiron. Others, like Princeton and Carnegie Tech, figuring contrariwise, had tossed in the towel for the duration. Of the few teams already in action, Michigan's teens rang the freshman bell loudest last week by winning their opener, 12 -to-7, against the strong Iowa Seahawks (Naval Pre-Flight); 6-ft. 4 Freshman End Dick Rifenburg caught passes and ran for both Michigan touchdowns...