Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain fell, a sleety, chilling March drizzle. Up the green slopes of Arlington Cemetery rolled a black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself...
...Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway, Pa...
First Methodist Church Schuylkill Haven, Pa...
...group of amateur inventors in Washington, Pa. announced that they had finally found the right adhesive combination. Their new tire, which works by friction, seems to give better traction than snow tires based on a gripping action. The tire material, a mixture of rubber and abrasives, feels gritty, like fine sandpaper. Designed for year-round use, it works equally well on snow and ice in winter and on wet, slippery pavements in summer...
...Size of It. In Harrisburg, Pa., a newspaper ran an advertisement: "Wanted. A quilted high chair that can be made into a play table, pottie chair, rocking horse, ice-refrigerator, spring coat, size 18, with fur collar...