Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, Conn., elementary and high schools closed half an hour after opening, while Local 871 of the American Federation of Teachers (A.F.L.) and the school board argued for four days about wages. In Gary, Ind., it was the pupils who struck...
Died. Raymond S. Springer, 64, old-line Republican Representative from Indiana, writer of last June's legislation controlling the export of petroleum to Russia; of a heart attack; in Connersville, Ind...
...issue of a "no penalty" contract. A two-week strike of 7,000 workers at Detroit's Murray Corp., which supplies body panels, frames and other parts, had already forced Ford to lay off 26,800 workers. The Murray strike had also forced Studebaker (at South Bend, Ind.) to lay off 10,000; the stoppage was backing up into other auto plants...
Public-Power Man. David Eli Lilienthal was born in the little town of Morton, Ill., the son of Jewish immigrants from a village near the old Austro-Hungarian city of Pressburg. He spent his boyhood in Valparaiso, Ind., where his father was a small merchant, went on to De Pauw University, where he was twice president of the student body and an editor of the school paper. He turned into a promising light heavyweight boxer, and met a girl named Helen Marian Lamb...
Research. In Muncie, Ind., the Chamber of Commerce called a halt to its flossy preparations for a Muncie Centennial when one Dorothea Bump gave the boys a quiet nudge: the city is still only 93 years...