Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbus, Ohio plant of Ralston Steel Car (capacity: 500 cars monthly) delivered only 168 cars in June, now operates at 25% of capacity...
...Janie has been waiting for: tall, dark, handsome and a millionaire. This time she needs no urging. Dreaming of their forthcoming marriage, she visions it crowding Adolf Hitler off the front pages. Gloats her playboy fiancé: "And to think I might have married [Glamor Girl] Brenda Whitney Jr., Columbus...
PAUL JONES Columbus, Ohio...
...Treaty of Tordesillas. The line ran from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
Correction. Near Columbus, Ga., several trucks of the City of Miami, Illinois Central's crack streamliner, left the rails, sliced ties and spikes for a half-mile, crossed a 150-foot trestle, hit a curve and safely remounted the rails...