Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions were identified as taking part in the invasion: the storied ist, once predominantly a Brooklyn outfit, now a rainbow division of men from many states, veterans of the North African campaign; the 29th, a National Guard outfit whose ranks were originally filled with men from Maryland and Virginia...
Rabid dogs, cats, rats, foxes, hogs were also alarming Maryland, Michigan, Florida, New Jersey, Colorado...
...over the land, people were thinking of Dday. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced a street service to be held in Madison Square on the day; Maryland's Governor Herbert O'Conor asked all liquor stores to close for the rest of the day on receipt of the invasion news. And in Washington, OWI Chief Elmer Davis pleaded that there be no commercial exploitation of Dday...
...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...
...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...