Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thorns & Roses Vice President Alben Berkley celebrated his 72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
...Department of Agriculture had a mournful announcement to make: DDT, the wonderful insecticide that debugged World War II, is losing its effect against mosquitoes...
...war against nature's banes, scientists also had a victory to report...
After six centuries of growth, the Habsburg collection was appropriated in 1918 by the Austrian Republic. Stored in salt mines during World War II, it was recovered by General Patton's Third Army, and sent on a triumphal tour of Europe and the U.S. by liberated Austria. For the transatlantic crossing, the collection was packed into the hold of a refrigerated Navy supply ship (hold temperature...
...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...