Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foes of bureaucracy and overcentralization promptly answered the President's carefree blast. The New York Herald Tribune demanded that the first parasites to go be the Government's 2,895 full-time and 31,618 part-time pressagents. The Washington News composed new lyrics to Maryland! My Maryland, to be sung by parasites marching out of town...
Admission. Matriculants now can enter many colleges in February, June or September. Some colleges admit students before they finish high school: e.g., Maryland's St. John's College (100 classics), which accepts nongraduates if they pass entrance examinations in English, mathematics and a foreign language...
...tractor-drawn stone-picking machine has been invented, whose revolving teeth can remove as much as twelve tons of egg-to head-sized rocks per hour from the top three inches of soil. Produced by Otis F. Reiter, a onetime Maryland farm boy with a piercing memory of stone-picking backaches, the machine has been hailed by farm journals as the greatest agricultural invention since the tractor. In this machine some experts see hope for a revival of Eastern agriculture, whose decline they blame largely on stony soil. Stoneless soil is 18% more productive than soil 30% full of stones...
...attacked the U.S. an FCC monitor in Oregon heard a new and interesting short-wave signal: no message, just two-and three-letter calls. Promptly all monitoring stations in the U.S. began to listen for it. Directional measurements were taken in Texas, in Nebraska, in Georgia, in Massachusetts, in Maryland. Triangulations were worked out. By the time the transmitter began sending messages-in code-FCC knew about where it was. It was about in the German Embassy...
...most-shot-at U.S. foreign correspondent was last week put out of action after a hazardous year and a half on the most adventurous assignment of the war. A.P.'s 34-year-old Maryland-born Laurence ("Larry") Edmund Allen was hospitalized in Alexandria, Egypt, a survivor of a torpedoed British cruiser in the Mediterranean...