Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-school students wrestled for three hours with questions like these. They were taking the state's semi-annual history examination, required for graduation. Usually 5% fail to make the passing mark of 65; this time there were twice as many flunks. And graders had marked the pa pers as tolerantly as they could...
Nice Work . . . In Franklin, Pa., proud Police Chief F. M. Sheffer innocently made out his year-end report: "Automobiles stolen, 23; recovered, 25. Bicycles stolen, 11; recovered...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...
...Reading, Pa...
...team that won the pro-amateur best ball prize: Hershey, Pa. Pro Ben Hogan, Amateur John Dawson...