Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more fond of as the other successful ideas raced on to practical accomplishment while the failure stayed in the laboratory. Old Peter Cooper's pet was a continuous chain drive for boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit that pulled a boat eight miles an hour against the current of the East River. But farmers along the canal, who sold feed to the tow mules, refused to permit the chain to be installed...
Chennault has lavished great personal affection and care upon a group of key young men: Colonel Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, 29, commander of the forward echelon; David L. ("Tex&") Hill, formerly an A.V.G. ace, now a lieutenant colonel, commander of the forward fighters; Lieut...
...other New York Governors won their party's Presidential nomination: John Jay, George Clinton, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Charles Evans Hughes, Alfred E. Smith...
...hope that one of the offensive steps will aggravate the Jap into sending out his battleships and carriers. They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
...corn refinery which shut its doors is in Clinton, la., in the heart of the U.S. corn belt, where bins and elevators bulge with last year's crop...