Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential campaign (not including the final week). Of these, 84 eggs, 40 tomatoes, 4 peaches, 2 lemons, 1 orange, and 1 bun were aimed at Henry Wallace. He was hit by 5 eggs and 4 tomatoes. Two eggs splashed on his plane, 2 on his auto, 2 on his train and 1 struck the manuscript he was reading. One egg and 5 tomatoes were thrown at Governor Thomas E. Dewey. No hits. One pop bottle was thrown at President Harry Truman during his parade in Indianapolis. It landed in the street, 35 feet away...
...Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
...Hollywood, Mickey Mouse, whose birthdays are reckoned from the moment of his conception (in Walt Disney's mind in a drawing room on a westbound train) rather than from his first public appearance (in Steamboat Willie, 1928), turned 21. Father Walt and a few oldtimers honored their hardworking star (who has appeared in more pictures than any other actor in Hollywood*) with a quiet, off-the-lot anniversary dinner...
...Paul G. Hoffman, wife of the ECAdministrator, was feeling shaky after her car was smashed up in a three-car collision near Monroe, La. Next day a friend drove her on to Dallas, where she planned to take a plane or a train to Pasadena...