Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
...Angeles, Governor Earl Warren drew the honor of opening the 47th Annual American Bowling Congress. While the flashbulbs popped, the Governor opened Congress with a bang-and held center-stage by the skin of his teeth while Comedian Harold Lloyd flashed...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Earl Browder cross-examined by newsmen...
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland† and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland...
...give a half-interest in Wrigley Field. Yet Creger had little chance to break into the Cardinals' crack lineup: to do that he would have to beat Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion out of his job. At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the up-&-coming Boston Braves were proud of bespectacled Earl Torgeson, who swings something like Ted Williams...