Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along busy Central Avenue, on the outskirts of Memphis, Tenn., rolled 80 trucks of the 110th Quartermaster Regiment, making slow progress through Sunday traffic. In the cabs and on the hard seats behind sat 350 soldiers, ties discarded, collars open under a blistering sun. After the manner of the U.S. soldier, Model 1941, or the Roman soldier, B.C. 100, they were also making merry by waving at girls, shouting boisterous pleasantries at civilians. They had a right to be cheerful, they had just finished more than a month's hard work in the Second Army maneuvers in central Tennessee...
...PATTON Knoxville, Tenn...
...read this aloud to my old friend, E. E. Patton, the great scholar and educator, in his office at Knoxville, Tenn. This was his reply from memory...
...same hot sun brought still graver trouble to U.S. powermen. TVA's reserves were so depleted that it had only a nine-week supply of water left. In Nashville, Tenn., in the midst of TVA's vast power development, the Vultee aircraft plant had to close down, suspend work on observation planes for the U.S. Army, dive bombers for Britain...
...Russian Rejuvenator Dr. Serge Voronovr, 74, and wife Gertrude, 28, entered the U.S. for permanent residence; in Santa Barbara, high-domed, German-born Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Roosevelt), 60, and wife re-entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore the citizenship she renounced...