Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...
...homes in 330 areas, checking on 115,000 individuals (TIME, May 20, 1957). The findings, extended to the whole U.S. population: ¶ Illnesses and injuries severe enough to require medical attention or keep the victim at home totaled 437,886,000, an average of 2.6 for every American. ¶ The weaker sex was only slightly weaker-2.7 such illnesses, against 2.5 for men. ¶ Children under five had the highest illness rate, 4; oldsters over 65 had the lowest, 1.6. ¶ Days lost from work totaled 356,500,000; from school 273,200,000. The survey, first of its kind...
...many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...
...American Airlines put a big bet this week on the future of air freight. To Douglas Aircraft went a $4,250,000 contract to turn ten of American's piston-engined DC-7B airliners into air freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...
...deal serves a double purpose for American by finding a use for the transports at a time when the market for used planes is sour. With jets and turboprops coming into service, every airline is trying to sell its obsolete craft, and prices are down sharply. By turning DC-7Bs into freighters with 16¾ton capacity and 360-plus m.p.h. speeds (2¼ tons more, 55 m.p.h. faster than DC-6A freighters), American not only avoids the risk of taking a big loss, but also gives itself a leg up in a vigorous young business that is just beginning...