Word: maywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Necessity. In Maywood, N.J., Mrs. Carol Kaufmann reported to police the disappearance of her husband and her car, begged them please to find...
...Park, Ill., Mrs. Abraham Katz heard the news that her son, Charles, "was saved, and said quietly: "I wish all mothers of prisoners could share my joy." But in Maywood, Ill., families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...
Pilot Lieut. Stanley Sagert of Maywood, Calif. was resigned to flying the bombs home again, when someone tapped him on the shoulder: "Bombs away." Looking back, Sagert saw two sergeants holding the bay doors open with their feet while the bombardier kicked the last of the bombs off into 20,000 feet of atmosphere...
...could get turbines to power them. He persuaded the Maritime Commission to lease the Long Beach municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...