Word: blackburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Tufts performers likely to see action include Dick Rosen and George Blackburn, guards; Al Nickerson, Bob Burgbacher, Addison Parris, and George Weldon, forwards...
...banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue written entirely in French...
...dedicate a new health center. It will also record what it has done to meet the 20th-century problems of housing, health, jobs, poverty, education, dependency. The center operates a cannery, a co-op store, a job-placement service. It trains for jobs and homemaking. Says softspoken, polished Cleo Blackburn, Planner House director and former Tuskegee teacher, "When we work at these problems, race relations take care of themselves...
...Midway was so vast (986 ft. long) and so intricately divided into watertight compartments below the hangar deck that a boot sailor could be excused if he took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly...
...lightweight houses will be prefabricated on assembly lines by plane builders already feeling the pinch of the transition to peace (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Blackburn Aircraft Co.). More important, they will draw off much of Great Britain's and Canada's huge aluminum and magnesium production which has been more than quadrupled during the war, and which might otherwise have had but a piddling peacetime market...