Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before World War II, the Army Engineers approved a project calling for dredging a four-acre swamp in the river. The congressional bill to provide the necessary $33,000 was vetoed. Thereupon a majority of the voters, some 200, gathered at the Fire Station and decided to build the harbor themselves, and to date they have spent over $40,000 on it. The Coast Guard used the harbor as a wartime base for patrol craft, and there is an active Coast Guard auxiliary unit there today...
...station is backed by the 400,000 members of the wealthy, politically potent International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, headed by New-Dealing David Dubinsky. Its purpose, in the words of Frederick Umhey, I.L.G.W.U.'s executive secretary and president of WFDR Broadcasting Corp.: "To utilize radio as a vehicle for labor to tell its story...
...Roosevelt died, the Patroon Broadcasting Co. in Albany, N.Y. asked the Federal Communications Commission if it might use the call letters WFDR. The FCC, deciding that the President's initials should not be identified with a commercial venture, said no. But last week in Manhattan, a nonprofit, FM station called WFDR went...
...more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time. He was the stranger who often walked just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home...
...from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch a glimpse of the holy relic...