Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokane, Wash...
Last week, when the first frantic blackouts ended, West Coast citizens argued about whether they had done well or badly. In Seattle they were talking about Brigadier General Carlyle Wash, boss of the Second Interceptor Command, who ordered the blackouts, ordered radio stations off the air. When listeners complained, General Wash snorted: "To hell with entertaining people. We're trying to save their fool lives." They talked about one blackout crime: a man posed as an air-raid warden, raped a Chinese girl. They talked about the storm that swept the coast-one of the worst in years...
...campaign Senator Wheeler was elected by an unparalleled majority over a weak Republican candidate, E. K. Cheadle Jr., who was away serving in the Army at Camp Murray, Wash., and whose campaign, such as it was, was made by his wife. Most informed opinion in Montana seems to be that the Senator has lost strength in the past year but that if he had to stand for election today against any other candidate now in sight he would almost certainly win: the State is not too fond of his isolationism but he has a proved capacity for getting votes...
Died. John F. Bickel, 82, father of Actor Fredric March (see p. 39) ; in Centralia, Wash...
...scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke the ice in hog troughs to wash their morning faces...