Word: salinas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...
...labor newspapers surveyed by the Federated Press, 117 were for Roosevelt, 19 were neutral; only one, the independent Central Labor Journal of Salina, Kans., was actively for Dewey. But the Pittsburgh Courier, largest U.S. Negro newspaper, came out for Dewey. Of the Negro press's two other "big three," the Baltimore Afro-American appeared to be leaning toward Dewey, while the Chicago Defender was still ardently pro-Roosevelt...
...Salina, Kans...
Prettiest football coach in the U.S. is 22-year-old Pauline Rugh. When Bell Township High School, in the soft-coal mining community of Salina (20 miles east of Pittsburgh), lost its football coach, the school's comely physical-education teacher persuaded officials to let her take the job. Then she nearly lost it before she started...
...Pauline, who majored in physical education at Penn State ('42) and was badminton champion of the college, is no tomboy. Softspoken, modest, Pauline was prompted to step into her mannish role because she likes kids and knew what a letdown a football-less fall would be for them. Salina's grownups were pleased enough at being put on the map, but were somewhat skeptical of Pauline's prospects...