Word: juneau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calvert School today has some 300 day pupils. Its unique service goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...
...more of these girls speaks Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish-and all but one speak French. They know 33 countries on six continents, and thei. birthplaces girdle the globe: Shanghai, China-Santiago, Chile - Adelaide, Australia - Cambridge, Mass. - Juneau, Alaska -Charlotte, N.C.-Battle Creek, Mich. -Cracow, Poland...
...Navy named last week one carrier, three cruisers and six destroyers which it had previously admitted lost between Oct. 26 and Dec. 1 but had not named. The carrier was the Hornet. The cruisers were the Atlanta, Juneau, Northampton. The destroyers were the Cushing, Preston, Benham, Walke, Monssen, Laffey, Barton. Most interesting news was the inclusion of the Atlanta and Juneau-fast, light anti-aircraft vessels bristling with 16-five-inch guns. Their loss was presumably due to their meeting surface vessels, against which they had not been primarily designed to fight...
...such hopes, said that no more than six or seven hundred miners would be set free. One reason is that some gold companies will be allowed to continue operating because their gold ore also yields war-needed metals, and because they have developed other types of mines. Alaska Juneau, for instance, is developing a chrome mine in California. Hardest-hit of all the gold companies is Homestake Mining, which paid spectacular stock and cash dividends through the '30s. From a high of $60.25 per share in 1940 Homestake dropped to $22 in anticipation of the order. Last week investors...
...Juneau, Alaska...