Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no denying the fever. Last week the chart of the nation's inflated economy spurted higher & higher. Wholesale prices reached a new postwar top (59.2% above the base year of 1926), after three weeks of record-breaking climb. For the second month in a row, average factory wages passed the $50-a-week mark, to a new record...
Thanksgiving was a quiet day with family & friends. On Saturday, the President and Mrs. Truman boarded the eleven-car special for Philadelphia and the Army-Navy game, accompanied by a 200-member party which included most of his official family and their wives. The Trumans sat in the front row on the Army side, stayed there throughout the game. His knees wrapped in an electric blanket, the President cheered with careful impartiality. At the half, he munched sandwiches and matched grins with General Dwight Eisenhower for news pictures...
...Army beat Navy for the fourth year in a row. This year's less-than-great Army team held Navy scoreless (21-0), which the Blanchard & Davis teams of other years were never able to do. Hero of the day: Rip Rowan, who ran 92 yards for one touchdown, threw a pass for another...
Peter Zaremba is a Communist and the mayor of Szczecin, as Poles call once-German Stettin. At the dedication of his city's new hospital, we knelt next to each other in the front row of a large open-air congregation at a Catholic Mass...
Last week, the row collapsed in an exchange of U.S.-Canadian pleasantries as the subpoenas were withdrawn. Said Clark in a letter to Secretary Marshall: "The information supplied to our representatives at these meetings covered the immediate problems." In future, should similar problems arise, the Justice Department would consult first with the Canadian government. Washington called the outcome a draw, but to Ottawa it looked like a clear-cut victory...