Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more characteristic forms. The facts, says Historian Myers, prove otherwise. In all the American colonies the general spirit was that prevalent in England. That spirit was one of rampant persecution. Quakers were hanged in Massachusetts, but they were persecuted in Virginia as well. Not only in Massachusetts but in Maryland, long famed for its religious tolerance, the penalty for inveterate blasphemy was death; and blasphemy was any doubt that the Bible was the Word or that Jesus was the Son of God. Blue laws began not with the Puritans but in England, in 1448, "when all England was Catholic." Every...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
Equally gloomy was Maryland's U.S. Senator Millard E. Tydings, speaking before the Indiana State Bar Association. After the war, Tydings predicted, 20 million defense workers will be laid off overnight, the national debt will approximate $250 billion ($7,500 for each family). The Senator's antidote: as soon as possible get the Federal Government out of business and decrease its participation in unemployment relief...
Passion for Tunnels. Stoop-shouldered Long John Austin spent three years at the University of North Carolina's engineering school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...
...Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides his own hunters weekends on his Long Island farm...