Word: shreveport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
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...brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within 40 days he had organized Louisiana's A.A.G.P., with himself as president. Last week, Louisiana's chapter of the A.A.G.P. was the first to hold a scientific meeting. President Sanders invited the 240 members to Alexandria to discuss "practical scientific subjects...
...President Hugh Baillie: President Thomas Beck, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Editor Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Publisher Norman Chandler, Los Angeles Times; President John D. Ewing, Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Shreveport, La.; Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas...
...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...