Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong, to make the biggest political rally in U. S. history-three times as big as the one that heard Alf Landon's acceptance, twice as big as the one that heard Franklin Roosevelt accept in 1936 at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. On the quiet Indiana town that normally holds 10,000 people the crowd moved like some vast, unregimented, good-natured army on the march. It moved faster than any motorized column on record. It traveled in 60,000 automobiles that came from all over the country, in 63 special trains, in 300 Pullmans...
...living-room floor or out on the grass in the backyard. Late arrivals drove straight to Callaway Park, where the speech was to be delivered, to be on hand for good seats in the morning, to sleep safely under blankets, under the maples, the beeches, the oaks, the bright Indiana moon...
Smallpox is rare on the Atlantic seaboard, occurs mostly in Indiana, Iowa, California, Texas, Illinois...
...tail from a sleeve target being towed at 8,000 ft.). He stopped at Langley Field (where 6,000 men now work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...
After signing papers that would extradite from Indiana Nancy Miller, Gypsy fortuneteller who allegedly swindled her of $2,500, volcanic Lupe Velez, Mexican cinemactress, erupted in Hollywood: "I'm really going to fix her up. Number one-I punch her in the nose. Number two-I kick her in the teeth. Number three-I pull her hair...