Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland. It won the honor of being Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
Thomson got some business and University of Minnesota friends to help him form the Northwest Research Committee. They picked Albert Lea as their guinea pig: it represented a neatly balanced war-busy industry and farming. Last June, under the spur of N.R.C., 46 Albert Lea citizens began to examine their city and county. The U.S. Chamber's pamphlet tells what the Albert Leamen and N.R.C. found...
...Washington, varnishing-day guests saw oils, water colors and some drawings of subjects from a pre-Pearl Harbor defense plant (by Paul Sample) to Texas Artist Torn Lea's literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...
...draft files were statements from Senators Truman, Burton, Representative Lea and many another Congressional bigwig recommending hearings for MRA workers, or at least endorsing the vaguely stated precepts of MRA. By last week those statements were causing many a headache...
...Colonel Lea and Captain MacPhail had a hard time slowing down after the Armistice. On New Year's Day, 1919, they had a brilliant idea: let's capture the Kaiser. Taking six of their Tennesseans in two touring cars, they drove to Brussels, where they talked Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, into giving them a pass into Holland-on a "journalistic investigation...