Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of the Nation is a report of a miracle, and Dos Passos' best book. Its 333 pages and 14 chapters cover the U.S. from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. It is the distillation of innumerable interviews in shipyards, union offices, hotel rooms, bars, restaurants, sharecroppers' cabins, trailer camps, busses, trains, automobiles, machine shops...
Twenty-four hours were left to bid his battle teams a last Godspeed. In the morning "Ike" Eisenhower stood at an English quayside, chinning in his friendly Kansas way with embarking Tommies. In the afternoon he called newsmen into his trailer tent, told them of the great decision. He slouched in his chair, grinned lopsidedly, chain-smoked cigarets, wisecracked a bit, once leaped like an uncoiled spring to exclaim...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...
...clock last Saturday Gil Dodds easily won the Harvard-Tufts-Coast Guard cross country meet in 17:48, breaking the previous course record of 19.1 by a minute and 13 seconds, and coming in a full minute ahead of his closest trailer, Vogel, of Tufts, who also broke the record. Coast Guard won the triangular meet with 38 points; Harvard came in second with 40, and Tufts was last with...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...