Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Alfred de Liagre Jr., 40, dapper, socialite Broadway producer-director (The Voice of the Turtle); and Mary Howard, 28, Kansas-born cinemactress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois); both for the first time; in Woodstock...
Result: his Lincoln Recorder plays five and a half hours of a talking record or three hours of high-fidelity music on one side of a 16-in. disc. There are other important advantages: surface scratching is virtually eliminated, and a record can be embossed and played back on a simple home machine...
...purchaser, the Hawker Siddeley Co. of London, which controls many of Britain's biggest aircraft concerns (e.g., A. V. Roe, Hawker Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth), will continue to make the Lincoln bomber,* reportedly will switch to the Tudor, the civilian version of the Lincoln, after the war. The company has also agreed to maintain an undisclosed level of employment at the Canadian plant, set up a completely integrated aircraft industry in Canada, including research and development...
...Legend. The U.P. was conceived in war. In 1862, Lincoln ordered it built to tie the western territories more firmly to the Union. The U.P., main link in the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, has become a lusty, robust American legend...
There seems little doubt that popular opinion and the weight of historical criticism has singled out two of our Presidents as being in a preeminent class by themselves, both by magnitude of achievement and by virtue of moral stature. These two are Washington and Lincoln...