Word: 45th
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Wajda was alone on the raft. Once he sighted a distant ship, dully watched it merge again with the sea. At last, on the 45th day, the water showed streaks of mud that mean only one thing in shipwreck language: land-and help. And help soon came. Said Wajda: "I almost fainted...
Spring fever was high in Federal Light & Traction Co.'s annual meeting, held last week on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. Sunlight tumbled through the windows. Eight spring-struck shareholders (of Federal's 1,900) lolled in their chairs, babbled of brook trout and pheasant. One shareholder stirred, asked President Clarence H. Nichols if there was anything interesting about the company. Droned Mr. Nichols: "No, it's the same old thing, we earn our charges and a little bit more...
...45th birthday last week, zestful, movie-handsome Ernest Robert Breech got the grandest birthday present of his life: the presidency of crucial Bendix Aviation Corp., a 19%-controlled General Motors affiliate. To take the job, Breech quit as G.M. vice president in charge of household appliances and aviation. At Bendix, Founder Vincent Bendix, 60, moved upstairs to board chairman...
...hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
Riding in his command car Louisiana-bound with his division (45th) for war games, Major Sandy Goodman acquired a consuming thirst from Texas' boiling sun and dusty highways. He didn't mind saying so into his radio transmitter. Major General George V. Strong, 8th Corps commander, inspecting the march from an airplane, overheard, ordered his pilot to land. They picked up a carton of iced bottled drinks at a roadside stand, flew back to the line of march and dropped the carton by parachute close to the parched Major...