Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill, where the Senate later approved 52-year-old Soldier Clay's retirement as a four-star general (at $6,600 a year), there were more salutes. Clay addressed both Houses of Congress, stood somberly and half-smiling as Representatives and Senators gave him standing ovations (his father, Alexander Stephen Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept...
...Despite the barnyard-like peace that always hangs over the stable area at dawn, there was an undertone of excitement around Barn 41. Boys from other stables, trudging past on their way to a cup of coffee, eyed it as a country boy would the big house on the hill...
...claimed that the Administration bill is "much to be preferred" to alternate programs backed by Senators Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and Lister Hill (D-Ala.). Both these plans provide for federal grants to states to expand medical and hospital facilities, and to pay for the care of those who cannot afford to pay the medical costs themselves...
...Yardlings made it 5 to 5 in the eighth, as shortstop Henry Young singled Charlie Cabet, pinch hitting, pepped to second baseman McHugh who dropped the ball and then erased Young at second. Switzer get an infield safety, and Hill Goodman, running for Spider Webb who had run for Cabet, fallied on a wild pitch...
...McGraw Hill; $6.50), by Carey P. McCord, of Detroit's Industrial Health Conservancy Laboratories, and William N. Witheridge, ventilation engineer for General Motors...