Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the department had moved from its fusty old headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue to a shiny new home on Washington's Foggy Bottom, had grown in the last ten years from 5,400 employees at home & abroad to 21,400, there was still some question about its capacity...
Gales churned the Ohio River wildly. The wind blew 85 miles an hour in darkened, rain-battered Toledo, knocked over radio towers, derailed freight cars. As night fell, gales and torrential rain hit northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Finally, the storm blew...
...people of nine states surveyed the damage. An estimated 52 were dead, and hundreds injured. Rain-swollen rivers flooded valleys in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. Wreckage littered the Midwest landscape for a thousand miles...
...GOParty hack. The two men who chiefly told Wright what to do and what not to do were 1) General Robert E. Wood (retired), Sears, Roebuck & Co. chairman; 2) Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara, Chicago investment broker; Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin's Secretary of State; William Campbell, Wisconsin industrialist...
...exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, Soyer's painted models showed their unhappiness by their slouching poses, and the drab color of their flesh and their surroundings. What made gallerygoers look at them twice, and also made museum directors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Manhattan's Metropolitan and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute buy up the best, was a familiar (and faintly angelic) detachment in their expressions: the off-guard pensiveness of girls who think themselves alone and unobserved-dressing and undressing, yawning, idly reading, or waiting for a train or subway...