Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoky, second-floor room in Easton, Pa., Post Commander George Lacey told the sprawled Legionnaires of Brown and Lynch Post: "Fellows, there's nothing to discuss here. The national convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea...
Long-Lasting Blood. One of the projects of blood research is to find ways to preserve whole blood. Dr. Max Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. is working on a method of controlling the temperature, acidity and sugar content of blood. He thinks he may be able to preserve it for nine weeks, thus tripling the nation's stockpiled supply...
...clipper ships around the world in spite of the pirates of Barbary, which put Perry into Nippon and John Paul Jones into the Russian Navy! More power to you! Let's wake up and quit thinking in terms of little loops!"-Philip R. White of Willow Grove, Pa...
...Gettysburg, Pa., a thief stole $45 from a safe in the Adams County jail...
Died. Samuel D. Riddle, 89, textiles heir and horseman, owner of the late great Man o' War and his illustrious son War Admiral; in Glen Riddle, Pa. Riddle always insisted that it was his own idea to buy one-year-old Man o' War for $5,000 -although "you'll hear 50 persons tell how they influenced...