Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper joined the outcry: said Amazonian Pundit Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...
...taught science at St. George's for a year, where he was especially remembered for his ability of instilling great spirit and fight into an otherwise mediocre football team. Enlisting in the Air Corps a year ago, Hedblom received his training at Oxnard, Cal., and was commissioned a lieutenant last May. He was sent to Great Britain as a pilot of a Flying Fortress this summer...
...frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...identified. They are probably benzedrine sulfate-a drug ten times as potent as caffeine and often used by U.S. college students (without regard to the harmful aftereffects on their nerves) to supercharge them through cram-sessions and finals. This is the conclusion of Gordon Alles and George Feigen of Cal Tech, who have been studying antifatigue drugs for years. The U.S. is not officially supplying its armed forces with such pills, although the British use them. So far as Dr. Alles knows, no pep-pills have been captured on Nazi troops, but letters indicate that stimulants were used as early...
...recipients for the year 1942-43 are: Millard C. Browne, Editorial and Political writer, Sacramento (Cal.) Union; James M. Daniel 3rd, Reporter, Washington Daily News; John F. Day, Jr., Filing Editor, Associated Press, Huntington, West Virginia; Edward J. Donohoe, Reporter, Scranton Times; Robert C. Elliott, Editor, War News, San Francisco News; James P. Etheridge, Jr., Editorial writer, Tampa Daily Times, Tampa Florida; Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., Assistant City Editor, Seattle Times; Ernest M. Hill, Political writer and state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis...