Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been dickering with a sign outfit in Joplin, but they're too busy with a bunch of Coca-Cola signs right now. It looks like Truman's going to be out before we get those signs...
...usual, the first order of business was finding the youngest and the oldest. Youngest: Orlando LeValley, 97, of Caro, Mich. Oldest: William Henry Osborn, 103, of Joplin, Mo. But National Secretary Cora Gillis wasn't sure: "Sometimes they change their age from year to year. Some years they want to be the oldest, some years the youngest...
...late afternoon when the enemy task force was sighted, steaming in from the South China Sea, by a Navy search Liberator piloted by Lieut. P. F. Stevens of Joplin, Mo. Stevens reported his find: a battleship, a cruiser and six destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated...
...Junior four are Leopold H. Haimson, managing editor of the Student Progressive, member of the Debate Council, history and philosophy major from New York, George Washington High School; Glen O. Martin, member of the Harvard Liberal Union, philosophy major, Joplin, Missouri, Joplin High School; Marshall N. Rosenbluth, physics major, Chicago, Stuyvesant High School; and Truman O. Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Oakland High School, who was inducted into the Navy in June...
Harry Truman arrived late in the afternoon by automobile from Joplin. He walked briskly to the white, five-room house where he once lived, posed for photographs and newsreels in the 10 by 6 ft. bedroom where he was born...