Word: wortham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced by tanks, 38th Division infantrymen were storming a narrow gorge, its 500-ft. walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex. high-school student, gave him a bazooka and appointed him spearhead...
Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...