Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time, was plainly at fault, but four times during the battle he sent messengers to Wallace, to hurry up replacements. Wallace's men did not reach the battlefield until after dark...
...Memphis, Tenn...
...LILLIAN P. DAVIS Nashville, Tenn...
Fission & Fusion. Stockholders of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. approved a plan to separate the company from its non-aviation interests, including a general manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...
...Other element-hunters polished off some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...