Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Choral Society, in honor of U.S. soldiers who made Maastricht the first Dutch town to be liberated during the war. He received a first-edition block of the 3? George Washington Carver memorial stamps from Postmaster General Donaldson. Kiwanis International President Charles Armstrong informed him that Kiwanis was against Communism, for the United Nations...
...Chile, trying to save gasoline (and dollar exchange), put police patrols on the roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
...other unlawful or unconstitutional means of the government of the United States or of this commonwealth, shall be employed as a teacher or otherwise in any university, college or school, public or private, or in any position in the educational system of the commonwealth or of any city, town, superintendency, union or country...
...Rutgers football coach is known to have checked out of the local Continental Hotel yesterday afternoon Several Crimson gridders have added further reports that he was in town. An his massive and unable person was soon for three hours Saturday afternoon in the Faculty-club dining room. From 1 until 4 o'clock he was lunching secretly with H.A.A. shepherd William J. Bingham...
...when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted TNT bombs for hair, and tried the same stunt -with about the same result...