Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fargo, N.D., welcomed the guests of other faiths. "Cooperation of all is required," he said, to strengthen rural life. At convention's end the conference went still further along the road of cooperation, elected a Protestant-Dr. Oliver Edwin Baker, professor of economic geography at the University of Maryland-to its board of directors...
Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
This close call taught the 34-year-old, Maryland-born A. P. man a lesson. When he returned to the U.S. last March for his first furlough in four years, he learned to swim. This precaution may have saved his life at Tobruk. Allen remained in the U.S. long enough to collect a Pulitzer Prize for his work and to say no to the horde of book publishers, radio and lecture impresarios, who rushed at him, checkbooks in hand. The unassuming "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet said he just wanted to go on doing his job ("I would find...
...refugees and German-Americans as: Wilhelm Sollman, onetime Minister of the Interior in Stresemann's Cabinet; Dr. Eric Stoetzner, ex-managing editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung; Chemist Dr. Werner Leszynski; Dr. William Dickman, former German magistrate; Dr. A. E. Zucker, professor of modern languages at the University of Maryland...
...many a scrap owner may sniff higher prices, hold out for still fancier prices. Meanwhile WPB had its Industrial Salvage Committees going hot & heavy in 400 U.S. cities. Chief argument: patriotism. Thus Manhattan milliners surprised everybody, chipped in 150 tons of scrap (partly from eight huge hat-making presses); Maryland State officials collected a batch of square-cornered World War I tanks, started them on their last mile into a roaring steel furnace...