Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...
...measured by the fact that in 1939, U.S. aluminum production was only 327 million Ibs., and all of it was made by Alcoa. The new Reynolds plant alone will make 160 million Ibs. a year. Moreover, when Reynolds completes its new $35 million reduction plant at Arkadelphia, Ark., the company's total aluminum capacity will be 829 million Ibs., 2½ times the whole nation's prewar production. Reynolds itself, little more than a maker of packaging foil before World War II, will then be the nation's No. 2 basic producer of aluminum. Not only Reynolds...
...Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to three Korean war heroes-Lieut. Lloyd L. Burke of Stuttgart, Ark., Corporal Rodolfo P. Hernandez of Fowler, Calif. and Marine Master Sergeant Harold E. Wilson of Birmingham, Ala.-and said, proudly: "These citations . . . show just exactly what the fiber of the American people is made...
...Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose . . . [Speaking at Little Rock, Ark.-TIME, March 31]." No wonder it sounds oldfashioned. It's a rehash of an address to veterans of the Rainbow Division at a reunion in Washington in 1935. See Rovere and Schlesinger, The General and the President, page...