Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed-bug, but had promptly smashed up in quarrels with the city commissioners. In as mayor went polished, polite Earl Glade, 58, vice president of Salt Lake's influential radio station KSL. Explained defeated Mayor Ab Jenkins, whose speed records were amassed in solo flights across the Utah salt flats: "I'm not used to running a race against someone else...
Jack Pots. In Ogden, Utah, Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...Drafters of the Resolution: Connally, Georgia's George, Utah's Thomas, Kentucky's Barkley, Iowa's Gillette, Michigan's Vandenberg, Maine's White. Wisconsin's LaFollette, ill at home, left instructions that he be recorded as voting against any egg hatched...
...stayed below, getting out his men and securing his boilers while the Jap airmen, apparently thinking the Utah, a target ship, was a carrier, gave the craft a savage working over. Tomich went down with her. For his devotion the President of the U.S. made the last entry in his personnel record: the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor...
Last week the Navy was still holding Peter Tomich's medal. Reason: it could find no relative of the Utah's hero to receive...