Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry J. Tuthill tried about everything. He worked in a chair factory and as chief assistant can-washer in a dairy; peddled picture frames, baking powder and soap on the road; took a mail-order course in steam engineering; courted the belle of Springfield, Ill. ("Beautiful creature-she later married a brakeman.") He joined a street carnival as barker and sold the Perfesser's cure with a medicine show. In 1919 he became a comic-strip artist, began drawing The Bungles. By last week he was good & tired of that...
...creep in. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. It is true that the records of Congress list F.D.R. as the 31st President. But the Congress is a separate branch of the Government. Check with the Constitution. WILLIAM E. BARINGER, PH.D. The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield...
...some features of this vision are already in practice. Classification tests, mechanical aids, and language-teaching methods have been highly developed by the Army & Navy. First-grade-through-college aviation training has been adopted by some 15 states. Tolerance classes are routine in Springfield, Mass. Several school boards have established summer camps for individual schools. Especially in large cities, vocational high schools and work-experience programs are no longer a novelty. The fast-as-you-can-go college course is a going experiment at the University of Chicago...
...President sacked the man who had sent Boss Pendergast to the penitentiary: Maurice M. Milligan, U.S. Attorney for western Missouri. For this post. Truman nominated Sam M. Wear, Springfield attorney and Democratic State chairman of Missouri...
...output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain and molasses alcohol; 2) the ever-thirsty U.S. is rushing completion of a bigger, $2,000,000 alcohol plant for the potent Willamette Wood Chemical Co. of Springfield...