Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Animal Kingdom. At Snake River, Wash., one of four mules which were loaded with firewood and hopefully re leased in the direction of Jack Titus's ranch, eventually turned up with two tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...
...Moscow Conference it was decided that each United Nation shall be the judge of war crimes committed in its own territory. Does this mean that the U.S. could wash its hands of the whole business? Many Americans would like to think so. Those who believe that the answer to the German problem is extermination of the German people-the most vocal of whom are Littérateurs Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout-have few supporters...
...mayor of Kent, Wash., truck-gardening town near Seattle, which had some 1,600 Japs before the war, had signs printed up: "We Don't Want the Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well...
...operator of Alcoa's Pacific fleet of nine ships. Through such a deal, Alcoa would acquire: 1) enough ships to water-haul alumina from its Mobile, Ala. plant to the West Coast, thereby saving enough on rail costs to cut prices; 2) huge clay deposits near Castle Rock, Wash., where it could set up its own alumina-from-clay plant...
...Pullman, Wash...