Word: chenango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman was moved to send a congratulatory wire to a couple of radio comics who had involved him in the plot of a script: so George Burns & Gracie Allen had the Presidential endorsement: "We all enjoyed the show immensely. . . ." Bess Truman and Daughter Margaret won applause from the Chenango Street Methodist Church of Binghamton, N.Y., which paid happy tribute to "the courage that you . . . showed [at a Manhattan banquet] when you ordered orange juice instead of cocktails...
Also in high water were the Ouachita, Arkansas, upper Susquehanna, Chenango Rivers. Mules and field hands hiked quickly for higher ground. The cottonwood trees felt silt on their upper branches. The waters came in and rose to angry lifts. Their major attack was on the U.S. war industries...