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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Milton Snavely Hershey, 88, philanthropist, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys; in Hershey, Pa., the company town (neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers sometimes complain of "da chockle shtink") he founded in a cornfield in 1903. In 1937, after having transferred his assets to the school (enrollment: 1,000), he said: "I have in the world, now, my clothes, my furniture, a few securities, and nothing else...
ENSIGN J. D. WILLIS (PA...
...Lancaster, Pa., after clashes with club-swinging police, employes of the Conestoga Transportation Co. ended a strike that had tied up bus-trolley service for 26 days...
Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...
Fore! In McKeesport, Pa., Golfer Harry Pfaff teed off on No. 13, made a hole...