Word: philadelphia
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...secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound of a 21-gun salute from shore batteries and from the U.S.S. Philadelphia, the Hawaiian Islands became part of the American republic...
...penniless and alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...
Leaders in perfecting live vaccines against polio have been the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin (TIME, May 23, 1955), and Dr. Hilary Koprowski. who began the work at Lederle Laboratories, then switched to Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. Dr. Sabin revisited his native Russia in 1956 to report on his early tests, so impressed Soviet medical men that they went to his Cincinnati labs for vaccine samples...
...surprise of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve Board last week tightened up on credit again-and immediately stirred up a controversy. In the third such move since last summer, the Fed permitted four district banks (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas) to raise their discount rates to member banks from 2½% to 3%, thus allowing others to follow...