Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend, a female embodiment of Christ on earth, lived and prophesied there with her seven handmaidens; she was determined that the land should become an American Canaan. A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes of retrieving the country for his King. Only the Indians were really hopeless...
Detectives said $6,000 worth of Layman's counterfeit tickets had been cashed at New York and Maryland tracks as practice for a cleanup in Florida this winter. Said disgusted "Inventor" Layman: "There goes our million bucks...
...clock on Sunday morning two British cruisers and two destroyers, steaming in darkness off the sole of Italy's boot, met what they were looking for. That afternoon a Maryland (Glenn Martin) reconnaissance plane had spotted an Italian convoy of eight ships with an escort of destroyers leaving Taranto bound for Libya...
Amid the encircling gloom, one little note of hope was heard. Maryland's Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor announced that his State had closed its fiscal year with a fat treasury surplus of $925,000. He promptly cut Maryland's real and personal-property tax rate from 22? to 14? on each $100, saving property owners about $2,000,000 a year. Next year, said Governor O'Conor, if all goes well, he may ask the Legislature to reduce Maryland's income taxes...
...production by only 12-15%, not enough to worry barflies (current liquor stocks could last for five years). The Government meanwhile rids itself of some near-useless, near-rotting corn. The transportation squeeze is helped a bit because most distilleries and powder plants are in the same area-Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia...