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...next fifty years the building played host to carpenters, clubs, choirs, lecturers, and the dramatic society. But when World War I began, Holden changed from a half-empty storehouse to the busy center for the Student Army Training Corps. In the last war it was a distribution depot for naval supplies...
...villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly casual manner, Dick Neuberger wowed...
Some 30,000 persons crowded Missoula (pop. 24,000) for the doggedly unpartisan presidential dedication of an aerial fire-fighting depot. Places on the platform with Ike were assigned to public officeholders; this excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...
...successors. France had acted as if European defense could be had without Germany, which was a mistake; it would be equal folly to think that the West could do without France. France is the key piece of real estate between the Atlantic and the Rhine, the communications line, supply depot, and headquarters of NATO. France still would have to be taken into account...
NIKE MISSILE production is being stepped up fast. The Army has just signed a contract with Douglas Aircraft and Western Electric to convert a 76-acre Quartermaster Corps depot in Charlotte, N.C. into a missile factory employing 1,500 men. First production: early...