Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn one May day Selenger and Lieut. Colonel Leland P. Molland, 32, of Fargo, N.Dak. volunteered to fly a weather reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. A World War II ace, Molland himself had flown 167 missions in Europe, bagged eleven German planes, collected a Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 29 Air Medals...
...stringer may be a state news editor (e.g., Warner Ogden of the Knoxville News-Sentinel) or farm editor (e.g., Jack Leland of Charleston's News & Courier). Whatever his specific job, each was intensely aware of the business and farm booms still accelerating in the South. All spoke of the rising standard of living for both Negroes and whites; the continuing switchover to diversified crops, the rise in beef raising on improved grasslands, the increase of tobacco poundage on limited acreage, the tobacco industry's efforts to sell abroad and the fast growth of chemical and textile manufacturing...
...forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of felony"). Like many a cynic, he was an inverted idealist. He railed at corrupt politicos, fought the railroad barons, dubbed Leland Stanford "Zeland Stanford...
MANLY FLEISCHMANN, 42, Buffalo lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive...
...Henryetta, Okla., Leland Gourley, publisher of the Henryetta Daily Free-Lance, was knocked down by an irate subscriber who objected to a Free-Lance story on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter for speeding. Publisher Gourley's good-natured editorial comment: "Who wants to interfere with an American's right to take a poke at the editor...