Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which directed postal employees to save string; he had a 100-lb. ball of the stuff and it was getting in his way...
...This way the Department grinds out 15,000 rats a year. And they use every one of them. They also use 100 guines pigs, 50 rabbits, 25 chickens and ducks, and--two dozen monkeys...
...Ejector. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Draft Violator Joseph Graigmyle explained why he had run away from his cow-milking job at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution: "I found out the milk was going to Fort Bliss, and I don't believe in helping the Army in any way...
...mound ace Brendon Reilly started the game for the alumni, but gave way in the first to Wallace, a wartime standout for Harvard nines. He gave up ten hits to the varsity but kept them well scattered except in the sixth...
...speed and safety go, the new road would outclass the old system all the way. Engineers estimate that the 90 miles could be covered in 90 minutes if, as planned, the road were to run uninterrupted from border to border. Like the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the highway would have a minimum speed law. From the safety angle, speedways are many times less dangerous than winding roads. On the Maine link from Kittery to Portland, for instance, there has been only one fatality since December, 1947--a score of one death for 70 million vehicle miles...