Word: nea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, NEA discovered that there probably would not be enough acorns to go around. Squirrels have been grabbing all the best nuts...
...opening session, Franklin Roosevelt made a brief appearance (shortly after the conferees had been told that Washington charwomen receive more pay than 44,000 U.S. teachers). The President spoke in support of NEA's drive for federal aid to education without federal interference. He also told a little story about a young Georgian who, in the early '20s, had asked him to do the diploma honors at a high-school graduation. "Are you the president of the class?" asked Mr. Roosevelt. "No," replied the youth, "I am the principal." The 19-year-old principal had had one year...
Until the P-63 is formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...
Since La Línea had no destroyers to sink or petrol dumps to burn, for once the world had a gauge of the accuracy of Italian Air Force communiqu...
Today 52-year-old Jim Williams, top man of all NEA's cartoonists, can afford to live as he likes. Under his high-spending management, the ranch (it has never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around...