Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MERSON Allentown, Pa...
...tenth Boy Scout law reads: "A Scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger. . . ." Last week good Scout Charles Follette Jr., 14, had the courage. At a football game in Ellwood City, Pa., the gas tank of a popcorn wagon exploded, set the wagon on fire. Keeping a crowd away from the flames, Scout Follette was fatally burned...
...Stader reduction splint" was devised in 1931 by Veterinary Otto Stader (of Ardmore, Pa.) because his canine patients gnawed plaster casts off their legs. When Drs. Kenneth Lewis and Lester Breidenbach of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital saw a Stader splint on a dog, they were impressed at once with the fact that it drew the broken bones back into their normal position and served as a convenient splint while they grew together again...
This plain, effective platform had not been drawn up overnight. It dated from last July when mastiff-faced Representative J. William Ditter of Ambler, Pa., chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee decided that the G.O.P. Congressmen needed a solid platform to campaign...
...call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted that he was "meting out justice to ma and pa." He won his party's nomination easily. Probable November result: his three opponents (Democratic, Progressive and Socialist) will divide the anti-Heil vote, send Julius the Just back for his third term...