Word: american
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American World Airways Captain Robert Fordyce, a New York-based executive recruiter, takes 20% of the first year's salary of each of the $20,000 executives he places in industry each year...
...million-dollar-a-year business employing 46 fulltime employees in New York, Chicago and Houston. Flight Safety provides instruction on new procedures and new aircraft to more than 800 professional pilots who fly the executive airplanes for some 200 major corporations, including Gulf Oil Corp., United States Steel Corp., American Can Co., International Harvester...
...compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October 1958. Of that big new share, Chevrolet's Corvair, Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant carved out a 48.1% slice to challenge American Motors and Studebaker-Packard. In their first month U.S. compact cars outsold imported cars by nearly...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...
...manner of his death was typical of his gentle nature. After he was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., his first thought was of his wife: "Be careful how you tell her." He died eight days later, whispering to his wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith...