Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After two years of labor, Denver's Red Cross Braille Corps completed a 24-volume Braille edition of Forever Amber...
...Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
...passengers are permitted on the northbound newspaper train leaving London's grimy King's Cross station each morning at 2:34 a.m. But 15 minutes before the train was scheduled to leave one morning a man climbed aboard it and settled himself in a car reserved for railroad employees. "No passengers," said a ticket collector. The traveler refused to budge. The ticket collector fetched a guard. The traveler refused to budge. The guard fetched an assistant stationmaster...
...Magnuson, an orthopedic surgeon, succeeds Major General Paul R. Hawley. He helped Dr. Hawley reorganize VA's medical department. Now Dr. Hawley, in addition to his new job of unifying the Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans (TIME, Jan. 19), will help him by staying on as special assistant and adviser...
...mile relay event tonight, the Crimson will be more in its own class. A quartet composed of Harvey Thayer. Al Ruby, Dave Hamblett, and Jim Wheeler--the best one-mile combine in the Varsity camp at present--will race Holy Cross and Brown. Jaakko will be surprised if they go below...