Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight Moultons were born and raised in a 15-ft.-square log cabin that Father Belah Moulton built on a homesteaded tract near Reed City, Mich, after returning from the Civil War. Despite their poverty, Mother Mary Moulton, who had been a country school teacher, insisted that every last one of the children get an education. Every one of them did. But Sister Mary, after years of country school-teaching, did not get her A.B. until 15 years...
Ceiling Zero. In Muskegon, Mich., the local OPA, with no jurisdiction over commercial buildings, started searching for new offices when its landlord proposed to boost the rent from $175 to $600 a month...
...ambitious manufacturer who can use 5,052,177 sq. ft. of floor space and does not mind operating an unhandily located plant should apply to the Defense Plant Corp. The chances are that DPC will be glad to sell its $100-million plant at Willow Run, Mich., at a knockdown price...
Wrong Type. In Ann Arbor, Mich., a Mrs. Hunt and a Mrs. Peck applied for jobs at the University of Michigan Personnel Office, were both turned down flat because they had flunked the preliminary typing test...
...amid all the quackery and superstition, two western doctors made great and lasting contributions to the science of medicine. In his office in Danville, Ky., Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first operation for ovarian tumor on a brave, unanesthetized woman who lived 31 years thereafter. In Mackinac, Mich., peering through a hole in the stomach wall of a half-breed Indian named Alexis St. Martin, Dr. William Beaumont made his momentous discoveries about the action of the gastric juices...