Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans made one major concession and one minor. They agreed to a $40 million increase in price-support funds. As a favor to the "very gracious and charming gentlewoman from Ohio," Frances Bolton, they added $7,500 to pay the salary of a department marketing-news reporter for the Cleveland area. But when the chips were down, the G.O.P. ranks held firm. The final cut was a whopping $340 million...
...black line-squall loomed in the northwest and lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
Jean-Paul Barricelli. Cleveland; Stanley Vergil Baum, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Wilbur Arnold Cowett, Springfield; Reger Lamont Creighton, Belmont; Sumner Lee Feidberg, Newton; Irvin Milton Horowitz, Elizabeth, N. J.; James Murray Howe IV, Clearwater, Fla; Hugh Montgomery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Whitson Makamic Overdash, Jr., Springfield, Tenn.; Armand Schwab, Jr., New York City; Charles William Stuart Talt, Roxbury; James Walter Warwick, Toledo, Ohio...
Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
Scouts from 13 big-league ball clubs (only Detroit, Cleveland and the Philadelphia Athletics were unrepresented) will probably be around for Bob's graduation in June, when he will be fair game. They will be willing to pay him a fat bonus-maybe as high as $25,000-for deciding to sign up with a big-league team. Right now Bob Hansen is indicating no preference, but as a matter of pure sentiment he has always been a New York Giant...