Word: maywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inland Ships. Although Consolidated is inland and had never built ships, Alden Roach grabbed all the Navy and Maritime Commission contracts he could reach. He had a plan. Consolidated would prefabricate ships in the plant at Maywood, trans port parts 22 mi. by truck and assemble them in yards at Wilmington and Long Beach. In August 1941 Alden Roach was upped to the top. He went right on expanding the company in all directions. He cagily hired Captain Harry B. Hird, former commandant of marine construction at Pearl Harbor, had him ready to run the huge consolidated naval-craft plant...
...Cleveland, relatives counted the loss of 75 sons (some of whom might still be in Corregidor.); in Maywood and other towns on Chicago's edge, the loss of a National Guard tank company. Other tankers, 106 of them, had gone to the Islands from Janesville (pop. 23,000) in the dairy country of Wisconsin...
...American Laryngological Association) last week caught up with grandma. After years of trying to change the subject, the scientists finally broke down and admitted that colds are caused by a draft. Their language, however, was somewhat different from grandma's. Said Dr. Irwin Gabriel Spiesman of Maywood, Ill., making a clean breast of it to 99 other experts in Atlantic City: "Rapid cooling of most cutaneous surfaces produces a reflex vasoconstriction [tightening of blood vessels] and ischemia [lack of blood] leading to lowered mucous membrane temperature of the upper respiratory tract...