Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid spotters, to be functioning by June 15, calling for observation posts on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with some 16 volunteer spotters for each post. Volunteer groups all over the U.S. - especially women's clubs and American Legion posts - have long been active on their own hook. But nothing so far undertaken suggests the scope of Administration plans, which call for the protection of water systems and public utilities, fire extinguishing, treatment of fire hazards, training to insure the continued operation of utilities and transportation, until hundreds of thousands - and perhaps millions - of men, women and children...
Immediate American entry into the war as an active belligerent was urged by President Conant in a radio address over a national hook-up yesterday afternoon...
President James B. Conant of Harvard University will speak on "When Shall America Fight?" on a nationwide Columbia hook-up from WRH in Boston from 2:45 to 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon...
...times he was put away in Sing Sing, to the widespread dismay of widows & orphans. But the clippings faded yellow and crumbly in newspaper morgues; the detectives who arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
When it settles down, the hospital can hook up with a local electric system but it carries its own generating plant. It also carries a reservoir of 1,000 quarts of water. All the buildings contain portable hot-water radiators run by electricity, as well as small electric stoves. When time comes to move, everything folds up: the 350 iron cots with rope bottoms, the well-equipped doctors' offices, the dentist's office, the operating room, with its sterilization units, operating tables, instrument cases. Like a circus on the march, the hospital rolls off down the highway with...