Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to...
Fulton Lewis briskly pointed out that General Leslie Groves was then head of the Manhattan Project. Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of...
Eighty minutes later Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to...
Everybody in Kansas knew that Governor Frank Carlson wanted the job himself, but he knew no acceptable way to take it; to make himself a U.S. Senator would be to break a contract with Kansas voters. So for a month Governor Carlson had dillydallied over choosing a successor for the...
The best individual matches of the afternoon appear to be the 145 and 155-pound contests. Smith's opponent at 145 will have a decisive height advantage and is heavy through the shoulders, but he comes up against a man who knows a great deal about wrestling. If Carter can...