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...annual charge of $30 per car will be made for the use of all areas. One dollar will be charged as a registration fen for all cars, and a $10 fine will be levied against non-registrants...
...Fen. 15 Springfield...
...resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south and one to the north. The new airstrip, hastily carved out of dirt road this week, is across the Fen River, three miles west of the city...
Listeners in Central Square and even in Fen way in Boston reported that they had heard the alarm system. Company officials also were pleased by the way in which the unusual tone of the siren was noticed; for one of their big problems, besides devising a frequency that would be heard above the sounds of traffic, was to make the tone different from any other siren or fog horn...
...England's greatest cathedrals is Ely, a Norman-to-perpendicular pile which stands on an eminence commanding the fen country of Cambridgeshire. Named for the eels abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the feast of Saxon St. Etheldreda (or St. Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because...