Word: cincinnatis
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...RODNEY HALE Cincinnati...
...officers formed the influential Order of the Cincinnati, but there was no political bloc of the veterans' rank & file. Not until 1818 did needy ex-enlisted men begin receiving pensions-of $8 per month. Another ten years passed before all Continentals who had served to the war's end were pensioned to the full amount of their service pay. Thus the post-Revolution U.S. began the persisting practice of waiting until the veteran has become a gaffer before giving him effective help...
...submarine prowled around a Jap-held island. From the bridge her commander watched Navy planes raiding enemy installations ashore. One of the planes was hit by flak. A parachute bloomed, and the pilot, Ensign Donald Brandt of Cincinnati, flumped into the water two miles offshore...
Working on the experiments is Major Albert Bruce Sabin, Rockefeller Institute and University of Cincinnati researcher on poliomyelitis and other viruses. With a satchelful of serum, flies, cultures and swabs, he has shuttled for six months between the Trenton penitentiary and the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories...
Souvenirs. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Lena Coffin won, along with her divorce, $5,500 in war bonds and the custody of a carnival exhibit-a two-headed baby preserved in alcohol...