Word: romulus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASPs, who come from all walks of life, have one thing in common: a passion for planes. Their chief is glamorous, dashing Jacqueline Cochran, ex-beauty shop operator, wife of Promoter Floyd Odium. Mrs. Love, ex-test pilot, is now a WASP executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...
...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...
Amid the encircling gloom, one little note of hope was heard. Maryland's Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor announced that his State had closed its fiscal year with a fat treasury surplus of $925,000. He promptly cut Maryland's real and personal-property tax rate from 22? to 14? on each $100, saving property owners about $2,000,000 a year. Next year, said Governor O'Conor, if all goes well, he may ask the Legislature to reduce Maryland's income taxes...
...that University of Maryland could contribute a large aluminum kettle, Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor suspended a regulation which forbids State departments to give away public property...
Wolf-suckled were mythical Romulus and Remus who founded Rome in 753 B.C. In 1940 A.D. from South Africa came a scarcely more credible tale of a black boy reared among baboons (TIME, April 1). Between these doubtful tales are 22 cases of children reared in the wilds by wolves, bears, leopards, etc. to which anthropologists credit some authenticity.* But only one case is open to real scientific study: the wolf-children of Midnapore, whose rescuer described them with camera and diary. World authority on these incarnations of Kipling's Mowgli is Anthropologist Robert Mowry Zingg of the University...