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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...Unconfined. In Blair, Neb., the weekly Enterprise carried a classified ad: "LOST: light blue dress night of Share-the-Fun Contest...
...three, in hopes of beefing up its weak sisters. Largely as a result of dividing American subscriptions, Collier's circulation climbed 9% (to 4,165,000) while the Companion gained 5% (to 4,225,000). But advertisers were leary. Collier's ran only 1,008 ad pages in 1956 v. 1,718 in 1951; in the same period, Companion advertising dropped from 945 pages to 544. Their losses turned a record $6,000,000 profit claimed by Crowell-Collier's book-publishing subsidiary (Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) into a $2,500,000 deficit...
...Rest Ye ... In Grand Island, Neb., the daily Independent printed a classified ad...
...Ad Astra. In Tokyo, after he clambered up the 100-ft. smokestack of the Central Post Office wearing a Santa Claus costume, unfurled a huge banner touting a nightclub Christmas party and was dragged back to earth by guards, Adman Teruo Sawashige explained to law officers: "I was told to do something extra novel...