Word: minne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheeze. In a Fort Snelling, Minn, medical center, a doctor wandered among unclothed men - some newly inducted, others newly slated for overseas - examined one briefly, told him he had asthma, was 4-F. Wheezed the man: "I've been in the Army 15 months...
...spring of 1942, the War Department hurriedly bought 21,000 acres of rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...
Married. Styles Bridges, 45, chunky, loud Republican Senator from New Hampshire; and Doloris Thauwald, 26, civil servant in the State Department; he for the third time, she for the first; in St. Paul, Minn...
Bright Triangle. In Sleepy Eye, Minn., Happy Newyear looked back on the holi days with scarcely any pain, felt fit enough to resume his correspondence with Merry Christmas over in Janesville, Wis., and Santa Claus in Marshall...
...Texas reporter, Mark Miller, wanted to show up the administrative weaknesses of OPA's gasoline-rationing program. He set out with no ration coupons at all, and made a 2,000-mile border-to-border auto trip (Brownsville, Tex. to International Falls, Minn.). He used 123 gallons of bootlegged gas, bought extra ration coupons for 190 gallons besides. In the Oct. 2 issue of Collier's he told the whole tale...