Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Griffith '42, Portland, Ore.; George J. Grindle '42, Washington, D. C.; Frederick J. Harrlgan '42, Lisbon, N. H.; John T. Harrington '42, Madison, Wiz.; Robert D. Hill '42, Wilmore, Ky.; Howard P. K. Hoddick '43, Alexandria, Va.; John W. Hursh '42, Cloquet, Minn.; Humphrey G. Hutchinson '41, Knoxville, Tenn.; Robert H. Ingram '42, Alameda, Calif.; Scott R. Inkley '43, South Euclid...
...Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained...
...Memphis, Tenn...
...Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because of puns. When old Composer Handy heard Dinah Shore send out his Memphis Blues, he wept, said: "It was never really sung before...
Much of the expansion was forced by TVA's own industrial customers, many of whom are beaver-busy with war orders. Last week TVA customer Vultee Aircraft announced a $9,000,000 expansion at Nashville. Aluminum Co. of America's aluminum sheet (for planes) plant at Alcoa, Tenn. is the only Alcoa sheet plant in a U. S. prime defense area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will...