Word: flints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost Towns. The articles became the talk of the region. They described the massacre of 12,000 Indians in the Battle of Flint Top-a battle no one had ever heard of. They showed that Greene and Washington Counties included earlier and more important cities than Pittsburgh. He had maps and descriptions of Razortown and Augusta Town, two famous "lost" towns whose sites had baffled historians...
General Motors, with massive new plants going up or already built near Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Flint, Mich., and Los Angeles, and Ford, with almost as many equally well distributed, are also major investors...
...Soviet Union is not news; its literature is extensive.*Author Dallin (CoAuthor Nicolaevsky contributed only one chapter to this book) lists a bibliography of ten packed pages on the subject, including Vladimir Tchernavin's unforgettable I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviet (Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1935). But until now, most of the slave-camp exposes consisted of narratives of personal experience and scattered corroboration drawn from between-the-lines interpretations of official documents. What Author Dallin has done is to bring all of this material together in a thoroughly documented volume. Documentation impedes the narrative flow...
...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
...Crimson point winners came through pretty much as Coach Mikkola had expected. Captain Wes Flint took thirds in both hurdles, Freshman Don Trimble won the javelin throw, Pete Harwood annexed the pole vault title, Bill Jackson was fifth in the shot, and Jack Fisher and Sam Felton placed two-three in the hammer...