Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint...
...team will be headed by Gerry Murphy, star of freshman basketball, who will face Milton's number one man. Last year while in the army, he won the Fort Bragg doubles championship, playing with Bob Bramhall '49, now of the varsity squad...
...Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year EGA has done more for European unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years." The finest birthday testimonials came from the people EGA had succored. Eighteen months ago the 10,000 workers of Europe's biggest tire plant (Fort Dunlop) at Birmingham, England, faced what some of them called an economic Dunkirk...
...fort still held out. From his command post Figueres opened up across the city's roofs with more guns than Costa Ricans knew they had. The staccato poc-poc of tommy guns mingled with the belch of mortars and the harsh slam of 50-calibre machine guns. The fort and surrounding houses were riddled. By the time the last rebels gave up, an estimated seven were dead, a score wounded...
...broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip back home to Fort Worth...