Word: loraine
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...United Press committed the common journalistic sin of hopping up a story -and raised an uncommon fuss. Reported the U.P. under a Lorain, Ohio dateline: "The first bread line since the Depression days of the 1930s formed today at City Hall in this recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only...
...Lorain, Ohio...
Cold Will. For Admiral King, the call to greatness came almost too late. Born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1878, of British-immigrant parents (his father was a railroad mechanic), he was a top Annapolis graduate, class of 1901, who spent the next 40 years learning all there was to know about surface ships, submarines and naval aviation. (He qualified as a pilot at 48.) Approaching retirement age (64) in 1941, he was saved from the shelf by the Navy's need for a boss as tough as the five-ocean, six-front war it was about to fight...
...heartened by an upturn in orders, scheduled operations at 66.3% of capacity, highest rate since June 28. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans for a new "multimilliondollar" plant in Utah for making oil and gas pipe, for a battery of 59 new coke ovens at its National Tube Division in Lorain, Ohio, and for improvements at Chicago and Pittsburgh plants...
Literal Translation. In Lorain, Ohio, Earl Duke, 25, asked a bus driver for directions, was told to "take a Broadway bus," minutes later wound up in jail charged with bus theft and intoxication...