Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaver, Pa...
...News Today. As the Potomac eased to the dock, the big, rosy-jowled face of Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson bloomed suddenly over the rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...
...besides his sons, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins; Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet; Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, not to mention his Military Aide Pa Watson, his Naval Aide Captain Beardall, his physician Admiral Mclntire...
...country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island (Calif.) naval-base workers. Builders got started on Wurster's houses last month...
...young Harvard graduate, Robert E. Lane, work-camp secretary of the International Student Service, arrived in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. last spring with an incredible proposal: a group of college boys & girls wanted the town to give them a tough job at manual labor-and they would pay for the privilege of doing it. Wilkes-Barre's puzzled citizens at first refused to bite. Eventually young Stanley Mesavage, industrial forester for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, who was worried about forest fires that annually ravage the nearby Poconos, persuaded State and U.S. forestry officials to accept the collegians...