Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that within the next three years, nine new weather stations for long-range forecasting will be built above the Arctic Circle. Canadians will be in charge of operating them, but the U.S. will pay an unspecified portion of the initial cost (an estimated $150,000 per station) and maintenance. At first the U.S. will also provide most of the trained personnel. Though Howe did not say so, Canadians guessed that this was the first action to implement the new U.S.-Canada defense agreement (TIME...
Happy Returns. In Decatur, 111., a lady bountiful gave a seedy-looking stranger $1 and a cheery injunction: "Keep your spirits high." Later, the stranger presented her with $37, her share of the winnings on a horse named High Spirits...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...
...Dick, or his equivalent, would go in his dream with Mad Anthony Wayne at the storming of Stony Point or with Decatur at Tripoli. . . . [This would] provide a constant character . . . who would become known to the kids...