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Word: md (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Aniline's war output is pretty standardized and can be kept going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strange Doings at Aniline | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...after the Japs roared down on Pearl Harbor, the War Department informed Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Baker of Emmitsburg, Md. that their boy was dead. Then the Bakers got a letter from George, written after the attack saying in effect that the report of his death was grossly exaggerated. Next the Veterans' Administration wrote to Mrs. Baker, enclosing a form to be signed so that she could collect George's insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HORRORS OF WAR: Casualty? | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Being familiar with what had to be done, mechanically and physically, to accomplish this, I salaam in amazement to your organization. It represents a feat I would have considered absolutely impossible. TIME is wonderful. L. D. RAMBEAU White Marsh, Md...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1941 | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...Armistice. The McKittrick hauled oil until 1932, then became a nightclub boat off California until broken to bits in a storm. The Faith carried New Orleans-South American cargo for a while, is now a fish-reduction plant. The Rucker purred between Fort Myer, Va. and Fort Washington, Md. until fire got her superstructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floating Stones | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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