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Back in the days when citizens of the Eastern seaboard were stocking their atties with sand pails and water buckets, the U. S. Army was determinedly erecting a long, low, narrow group of buildings adjacent to their expanding Fort Devens. This clump was imaginatively tagged "Lovell General Hospital, North"--the...
The men & women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and caught fish with horsehair. They wrote unsentimental Lilliputian love poems, such as:
At fullback powerful Vince Moravec has gotten the nod over last year's regular, Bobby Cowen . . . Moravec played in 1945 for the New London Sub Base eleven, showed his stuff too well in the Stadium for the Crimson comfort as the visitor's triumphed 18-7. Moravec is six feet...
Part of this was just a paper expansion due to increased prices or a normal increase necessitated by the increase in production, the delay in shipments. Some of it was probably caused by manufacturers stocking up in anticipation of higher prices. But what the Department of Commerce-and some businessmen...
The boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in...