Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...units of war housing over to veterans and their families, remodel Government dormitories to house 11,000 more, find room for 14,000 in Army barracks. The University of Washington planned to put up student veterans in portable houses shipped from the Hanford atomic bomb project. In Cleveland, a federal auditor suggested that old B-29s and Liberator bombers be turned into homes...
Sammy's backfire was due partly to the paralyzing cold in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, mostly to an old side injury. Into his shoes jumped standby quarterback, Frank Filchock, to pitch two touchdown passes. But the damage had been done...
Lured by a $3 raise, he shifted to the advertising department, later worked for several Cleveland ad agencies. By the time he was 40, he was making $20,000 a year and was ready to move to Manhattan. He did so, as president of Manhattan's Clarke Lighter Co., just in time to have it collapse under him during the depression...
...time he was dressed, his senior subordinates were recommending that the ship be abandoned. Scrappy Captain McVay, who won the Silver Star for gallantry as second in command of the cruiser Cleveland in the Solomons, was not convinced at first. The court must decide whether his delay in issuing the order increased the ghastly loss of life...
President Conant, continuing his pilgrimage of talks on atomic energy which has taken in Columbia University and the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland, began with an optimistic outlook towards "the first steps taken by the United States, Great Britain, and Canada to prevent an armament race in atomic weapons...