Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a pair of enormous binoculars dangling from his neck, President Harry Truman trotted around Maryland's Andrews Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders...
...released by the HAA earlier this month. TRACK April 16 Boston College 23 Rhode Island State 30 Holy Cross, Boston University May 7 At Dartmouth 14 Heptagonals at Philadelphia 21 At Yale 28-29 IC4A at New York LACROSSE April 4 At Pennsylvania 6 At Navy 8 At Maryland 9 At Stevens Institute 16 Boston Lacrosse Club May 4 MIT 7 Dartmouth 9 University of New Hampshire 11 At Tufts 14 At Springfield 18 Williams 21 Yale GOLF April 5 At University of North Carolina 6 At Virginia Tech 7 At University of Virginia 8 At Georgetown University 16 Dartmouth...
...Maryland State...
...Washington on the last day of October 1948, burly William Marshall Boyle Jr., one of Kansas City's smartest local politicians, pushed aside a pile of statistics and predicted flatly that Harry Truman would carry 29 states. He was wrong on only one state: Maryland went for Tom Dewey (by 8,293 votes...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson was spending a quiet Sunday puttering around his Maryland farm when he first learned of the "peace offer" from Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by I.N.S. Correspondent J. Kingsbury Smith, representing William Randolph Hearst. As a result, Hearstling Smith had a news beat, and Stalin had a good propaganda story circulated for him by the free U.S. press...