Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the 50th anniversary of man's first powered flight, and it was celebrated by two Americans, first Scott Crossfield, flying at 1,327 m.p.h., then the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager, ripping through the substratosphere at more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound. In sport, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees became baseball's first manager to win five consecutive World Series championships. Native Dancer, a big grey horse with the legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing...
Last week, in his 50th year of running the magazine, Editor and Chairman Poe's Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,227,329) carried more advertising than any other farm magazine in the U.S., and could justly say that its five regional editions "dominate the rural South...
Paris' first Salon d'Automne was a smashing success. High society talked about it for weeks, and more than 4.000 ordinary people paid hard-earned francs to get in. Last week the Salon d'Automne was celebrating its 50th birthday with a special, three-part show designed to recall its past triumphs...
More than 300,000 visitors and students come to see the glass flowers every year--the specimens that Bierweiler mounts, catalogues, and preserves. On the 50th anniversary of his unique service his friends held a celebration at the Faculty Club in his honor. To commemorate his half century of devotion they presented him with a government bond and an illuminated scroll which proclaims the University's debt...
...Cleveland area, boasts the Press, read the paper. Politicians curry its favor, mothers raise children from booklets on child care supplied by the Press, teen-agers dance at its free parties, and every year hundreds of oldsters (decked out in boutonnieres and corsages provided by the paper) celebrate their 50th wedding anniversaries at a party thrown by the Press. The Press puts its relationship with its readers simply: "Four members in your family? There are five. The fifth is the Cleveland Press...