Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...
...Kansas City the President's declaration of war brought no cheering from Pendergast "Goats." They well knew that Roger Slaughter (a "Rabbit" of the Shannon faction) was the strongest candidate. Now they were saddled with Axtell. and they gave him only an outside chance...
...stalwarts most was that there seemed to be nothing to do about him. In Democratic Jackson County there is an unwritten law: a "Goat" (the old Tom Pendergast faction to which Harry Truman belongs) is always the Fourth District candidate, a "Rabbit" (the heirs of the late Congressman Joe Shannon) always runs in the Fifth-and never would the two machines collide. Thus "Rabbit" Slaughter has the committed support of Jim Pendergast, who, like his late uncle, Tom, has a passion for keeping his political word...
...spending four years and $7,000,000, OSRD researchers half-hoped, half-believed that they had found a permanent cure for relapsing malaria (which plagues almost half the world's population). Its name: SN 13,276. Last week in Atlantic City, Squibb Institute's Dr. James A. Shannon released some promising facts about this newest member of the eight-aminoquinoline group (to which belongs Plasmochin, antimalarial drug developed by German scientists in 1926, later discarded as ineffective and too toxic...
Although sanguine about the new cure, Shannon had two reservations: 1) its toxicity, which may cause anemia (probably only in dark-skinned races), has not yet been determined; 2) SN 13,276 has been tried out on less than a hundred patients, may pan out poorly in large-scale tests...