Word: amphibians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High Life is Fred Miller. A tall (6 ft.), lean, handsome man who was once an All-America tackle and football captain at Notre Dame, Miller keeps his muscles trim at handball and tennis, hunts and fishes with the oldest of his eight children, pilots his own Grumman Widgeon amphibian around the U.S. Besides running the brewery, Miller has energy left to run scores of outside activities. He is president of the Milwaukee Brewers Association, runs public relations for the U.S. Brewers Foundation, is a director of the Milwaukee County Society for Mental Health and the Milwaukee Boys' Club...
...company had an order for 100 Thunderjets, its first jet fighter, but it was losing money on the Seabee (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...
Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM) is a splashy musical that casts Cinemermaid Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, the foremost amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome...
...those chaotic last moments, a Minnesota couple passed their two-year-old son through a window to a life raft, then were trapped in the sinking plane. Lieut. Commander John Natwing leaped from a Coast Guard amphibian that landed at the scene, seized one drowning passenger, and fought off sharks for half an hour until they were both pulled to safety. Another hero was the DC-4's captain. He helped some passengers out of the plane and managed to float four life rafts before the plane sank. He hauled a baby and an elderly woman to a raft...
McCormick, who had been Acting Chief since Sherman's death, lacked fleet-command experience, and then there were two. The two: Vice Admiral Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, World War II amphibian commander, now head of the Naval War College, and Admiral William M. Fechteler, chief of the Atlantic Fleet...