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Washington reporters still remember his campaign speech at the Fair Grounds in Hagerstown, Md. The grandstand was packed, the open speaker's platform surrounded by newsmen and telegraphers. But as Knox stood up to speak, lightning flashed, thunder rattled and rain fell in streams. The public-address system went dead; telegraph lines were washed out, everybody around the platform broke for cover. All but Knox: he stuck it out in the deluge as long as he could stand it, soaked to the skin, reading doggedly through his manuscript, grinning, gesturing. Few could hear...
...exhibition building, which housed mild-eyed Holsteins and Jerseys during the annual Hagerstown fair, was fitted with jigs, converted into a production area for riveting bomber wings. The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch...
...last week nine-tenths of Hagerstown's employables were on the aircraft company payroll, directly or indirectly...