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...hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
Washington. Ten years after the collapse of "Galloping Gertie," their suspension bridge over the Puget Sound Narrows, the citizens of Tacoma dedicated another and bigger $18 million bridge of the same type, built on the old piers. Engineers boasted that it was 58 times stronger than the previous one. Nickname: "Sturdy Gertie...
...field, soldiers sweated to load planes which had flown in earlier with evacuees, and send them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to Tokyo to support the Korean fighting. Every week its 53 commercial liners and 98 Military Air Transport Service planes fly a quarter of the way around the world and back, carrying more ton-miles of cargo than all the U.S. domestic airlines combined...
...isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel, were to fly to McChord field, near Tacoma, Wash., this week to operate be tween there and Tokyo...
...Tacoma-born George Shaw Wheeler, 41, his wife and four children, got to Czechoslovakia just before the Communist coup of February 1948. A U.S. Government employee since 1934 (NLRB, Department of Labor, War Production Board), Wheeler had served in a moderately important job with the U.S. Military Government in Germany. After two years and several loyalty investigations, he was fired in an economy drive. Wheeler went to Prague, got a job teaching economics in Charles University, wrote articles for the small Wallaceite National Guardian...