Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the Adventists made up 8.8% of the total, and were comparable in age, sex, occupations, residence and other key characteristics, they might have been expected to be afflicted by disease in the same proportion. Not so, Drs. Wynder and Lemon found. Items: ¶Against an expected ten cases of lung cancer among Adventists, there was only one, a man who died of lung cancer in 1955. He had smoked a pack a day for 25 to 30 years before joining the church in 1941, then had sworn off. (As a former metal worker, he may have been exposed...
HUGE NAVY ORDERS are coming for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
...great age of railroads, one of the symbols of elegance was the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited. In the last 56 years, the Twentieth Century acquired such features as barbershops, valets, showers, radiotelephone service, gift corsages, earned about $200 million as the most luxurious way of traveling between New York and Chicago. At its popular peak, the train ran seven sections. But the Century's patrons have been gradually defecting to the airlines. The passengers dwindled from hundreds to as few as 75 recently, and the Central has lost $1.50 for every $5 it took...
...airlines entering the jet age, the No. I labor fight is over the third man in the cockpit in the new jetliners. Should he be a fully qualified pilot (making from $4,800 to $22,000 a year), like the two now in the cockpit, or a special mechanic-engineer (from $4,800 to $12,000) without pilot training? Last week, as a result of the fight, Western Air Lines was in its ninth week of strike, with all 83 flights grounded and corporate losses running to $35,000 daily. The threat of similar "third-man" strikes hangs ominously over...
Says Fleming equably: "I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare stakes. I began writing these books because my mental hands were empty and as an antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43." As for the harsher critics, "they have so many chips on their shoulders they should go into the timber business. I do however apologize for once making Bond order asparagus with bearnaise, instead of mousseline sauce. A writer should acknowledge his shortcomings...