Word: ind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter arrived about midmorning. By noon, thanks to motherly Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, 60, who minded the village switchboard in the parlor of her white frame house, everyone in Geetingsville, Ind. (pop. 27) knew what the letter said: "Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain told me to write and tell you that I am charged with murder and have been sentenced to be shot. Get an attorney and try to have this sentence reduced." It was signed...
Throughout the nation, re-gearing itself to the Pacific war and at the same time to the prospects of peace, there were dislocations in industry and among workers. There were strikes. At the Indiana Brass Co., in Elkhart, Ind., police used tear-gas bombs to break up a clash of pickets and workers. In Akron, where 16,700 rubber workers were out, Selective Service was ordered to cancel draft deferments. In 63 specific war-producing areas labor was still tight, but in Detroit, Buffalo and San Francisco workers were losing jobs faster than they could find new ones...
...York Herald Tribune scowled at the churchmen's "naiveté, not to say . . . lack of information." Captain James Vest of New Albany, Ind., a wounded veteran of Bataan, said flatly: "Those ministers . . . didn't see what the Japs did to the Filipinos and the natives of New Guinea. They don't know what the hell the score...
...down the other side of the highway came one of the early casualties- a dusty small truck, bent squarely in the middle and looking quite bewildered, towed by a wrecker. When the opposing forces clashed, they clashed with the greatest violence. I remembered what Corporal Melvin Stottlemyer of Muncie, Ind. had told me: "I wouldn't miss this show for anything...
JOHN L. DAVIDSON Marion, Ind...