Word: milford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. In Milford Center, Ohio, Carl Kaufman was treated for chills after being trapped four hours in a packinghouse refrigerator. A few hours later he was treated for burns after his truck caught fire...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
...slice of armament contracts ($1,200,000,000), was unable to give its guests a firsthand look at all the work it was doing. Its 500-odd defense jobs are parceled out among 60 manufacturing plants in 35 cities. But in a hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts...
...peek-shows were held by General Motors (at Milford, Mich.) and Ford (in Dearborn). Both emphasized the industry's new defense role, showed the new cars along with an impressive display of aircraft engines, machine guns, shells, other war equipment...
...electioneering for Candidate Smith -by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact that Birmingham was comparatively spared, that the pattern for the moment was a new and ominous one: Southampton, Portsmouth, Portland, Devonport (Plymouth), Milford Haven, Pembroke-all the stations and installations of Britain's most important weapon in Britain's most important battle...