Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baked to Order. In Melbourne, Australia, Nurse Anne Sutherland, 24, heard a local radio station offer a $280 prize to the first girl reporting there with the same name as an advertised biscuit, rushed to the registry office and changed her name to Honey Graham, collected the bounty...
...magic lamp went up in 1947, one of the first official achievements of jovial Mayor J. W. (for James Willis) Godfrey, gas-station operator hand-picked and backed in five re-elections by the local political boss, spectacled Ralph Dawson, who doubles as city attorney. Mayor Godfrey drawls that the light, "being a machine, might vary four to five seconds in wet weather," admits that rain comes often enough for the light to produce a quarter or more of the town's $12,000 to $15,000 annual budget. But local members of the Good Government League, organized...
...Changed from the Southern-style, Anglo-Saxon name of Johnson's Station in honor of German Immigrant Karl Ludowici, 19th century roofing-tile manufacturer, who gave $1,000 toward a new school building...
MOSCOW, Nov. 12--The Soviet Union thrust the dormant Berlin issue to the fore again today by charging that the West German government plans to build a new radio station in West Berlin for propaganda...
...SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author...