Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attribute the wartime show ing of Russian agriculture to Soviet planning or to the inherent efficiency of col lective farming. Candidly, he said that "patriotism - an outstanding rise in pa triotism" was what kept Russian food production from collapsing...
Born 33 years ago in Scranton, Pa., he went to Hotchkiss where he edited the school paper, and then on to Williams from which he graduated in 1934. Summers he filled in by working as a deckhand on a Grace Line freighter, by police reporting for the Scranton Tribune (to help pay his way through college), by taking a course in International Law at the League of Nations at Geneva on a history scholarship...
...last of the ruling lions of the post-Civil War financial and speculative jungle, onetime clerk in Jay Cooke's famed banking house who married Cooke's daughter, went into partnership with his son, established an internationally known Philadelphia banking firm; in Elkins Park, Pa...
...star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...