Word: millsboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after he became a man, John got his feet out from under his father's table. He went to work in a brother-in-law's general store, and soon afterward decided to go in business for himself. Sussex County is chicken country, and John thought Millsboro needed a chicken-feed supplier. He and a brother borrowed a few hundred dollars, part from their father, part from a bank, and started the Millsboro Feed Co. It was no bonanza, but it grew steadily. At 19, John married Elsie Steele, a farm girl. In the early years...
...could. The retired Millsboro politician, an ex-Congressman named George Williams (no kin), looked over the field and found Republican candidates scarce because everybody thought the Democrats would win in Delaware...
...delinquent in taxes and had not been investigated for ten years. The Treasury protested that it couldn't collect from Costello because he didn't seem to have any property. Williams helpfully furnished the address of a Costello property: 79 Wall Street. How and where could a Millsboro chicken-feed dealer find a fact that was hidden from the Treasury sleuths? Williams found it in the Treasury files...
Enter an Aristocrat. All that is quite a commotion to be stirred up by a man from Millsboro, Del., and some might expect that he is about to be overwhelmingly and triumphantly returned to the Senate by the grateful citizens of his state. This happy ending, however, is by no means certain. John Williams is facing a very tough fight for re-election this year...
...John Williams' appointment pad in his dingy Millsboro office is a notation for Nov. 5: "Duck hunting-win or lose." If he wins, he plans to go right on watching the tax collectors, although he thinks it won't be necessary if Ike gets...