Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus OCD last week reversed its No. 1 rule for fighting incendiaries, after new experiments at the Army's Civilian Protection School (in Maryland). Hitherto air-raid wardens and firefighters have been warned again & again that a solid stream of water played on an incendiary will produce a blinding explosion and sudden death...
Named to executive council positions were Peter Grey '44, of Eliot House and Palisades, New York, Jack C. Levenson '43, of Kirkland House and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and David Lowenthal '44, of Eliot House and Chevy Chase, Maryland. Thomas S. Kuhn '44, of Lowell House and Peekskill, New York, was appointed an additional member, while Peter Grey was repainted Treasurer. The Executive Council will later add two additional members, one of whom will be a Freshman...
...Rules. OPA increased prices 2½? per gallon for gas, unveiled new ration rules on permanent cards to be issued next week. Next probable move: to extend rationing westward to include 93 more counties in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia...
...graduate of the Harvard School of Design in 1935, as well as the University of Maryland, Lillie began his research in the desire to illuminate evidence of pre-revolutionary estates comparable with those of the South. The work has since branched into historical research of Cambridge for a period of two hundred years and has extended to Boston, Newport, R. I., and Portsmouth...
...Roosevelt told half a secret to the newshens at her press conference: the President had taken "a little cottage" near Washington. Instead of weekends at Hyde Park or sea cruises, he will go to the cottage this summer. Asked if the new "ShangriLa" was in Maryland or Virginia, Mrs. Roosevelt answered: "I cannot say; but it isn't far away...