Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, Pan American Airways' President Juan Trippe...
...Academically, star football players ranged the field. The Air Academy's first All-American, Tackle and Captain Brock Strom, graduated No. 7 in his class. Strom is going to M.I.T. for postgraduate training (astronautics). West Point's celebrated All-American Halfback Pete Dawkins, a Rhodes Scholar and future infantryman who will attend paratroop training school this summer before leaving for England, ranked No. 10. But West Point's mighty Tackle Maurice Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy...
...early years conducted under a tree with sand as your slate. While in school away from home you have at times walked in one day the 72 miles for a visit with your parents . . . Unceasingly you have labored [for] the common people . . ." Henry J. Cadbury, chairman, American Friends Service Committee L.H.D...
...supported by her floor leader and lieutenant, a goateed mind reader. On the opposite side was a former nightclub pitchman supported by fire-eaters, sword-swallowers and comics. As a flock of Washington reporters perched outside the Pall Mall Room of the Hotel Raleigh, the annual meeting of the American Guild of Variety Artists grew as raucous as anything that ever happened on a carny midway...
...moved up to third place (42,500 cars), ahead of Pontiac (35,300), which still kept a commanding lead over the middle-price field. In the luxury field, Cadillac reported a five-month total of 65,413-the best January-May in the company's 57-year history. American Motors expected to turn out its 300,000th Rambler one day this week, far in excess of its total production in any previous model year...