Word: springfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Television has been gradually taking over the WBZ building. Radio doesn't require much room, for most of WBZ-AM emanates either from the NBC network or from sister-station WBZA in Springfield. Ever since the WBZ building opened in July, 1948, television has been taking over space in corresponding proportion to the industry's general growth over the last few years...
Layoffs & Grocery Bills. John L. Lewis himself was devoting only part of his time to the state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
...Springfield, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, 49, inaugurated in his first term last January, agreed to a separation (and an uncontested divorce later) from Socialite Ellen Borden Stevenson, 40, after 20 years of marriage, three children. Deploring "the incompatibility of our lives," the governor declared: "I am deeply distressed . . . We have separated with the highest mutual regard...
Munro's task is nothing short of tremendous. Last fall, in his first season here, he fashioned a team which lost only to Springfield (his alma mater and defending national champion) and Navy, Harvard's only Ivy League loss. The 1948 team finished second to Cornell in the Ivy League and runner-up to Connecticut in the New England circuit...
Mexican Gold. In the last two weeks of the 1941 season, after bombarding the fences at Springfield, Mo. (26 home runs) and Rochester, 20-year-old Outfielder Musial was called up to the Cardinals...