Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aug. 5. Ike summoned his Cabinet to the White House to outline the message he meant to deliver. It would be brief, he said, with an outside limit of 25 minutes' reading time; it would sum up the accomplishments of his Administration to date, and hammer home the need for completing his program. Cabinet members and department heads were instructed to submit by Oct. 15 their lists of achievements and specific requests for new legislation. The man who would coordinate everything: Kevin McCann, 51. president-on-leave of Ohio's Defiance College, Ike's biographer (Man from...
...last week), there will be a heavy overtone of individual and party politics on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill throughout the second session of the 84th. It is likely to last until the Democrats hurry to Chicago for the opening of their national convention on Aug...
...Loew's Inc., which runs MGM, announced that its earnings for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1955 will be lower than the $6,577,311 it made for the 1954 period. The dip in earnings is largely the result of two M-G-M box-office flops: The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner, which cost $3,000,000 and to date has grossed $2,200,000 in the U.S., and Jupiter's Darting, with Esther Williams, which cost $3,000,000 and has recouped only...
Married. Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish of Fujiyama") Furuhashi, 27, Japan's onetime record-breaking long-distance swimmer, holder of the world's 1,500-meter mark (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949); and Keiko Okada, 21; in Tokyo...
...morning of last Aug. 4, American Airlines Flight 476, a Convair 240 with two 18-cylinder engines, took off from Springfield, Mo. headed for St. Louis. Twenty-one minutes later, at 12:17, the pilot called on the radio: "Does anybody read 476?" American's radio at Springfield acknowledged, but got no reply. The ground station in St. Louis and two other American airliners heard Flight 476 reporting a fire in No. 2 engine. Three minutes later one of the airliners heard: "Springfield, are you reading 476? We have a bad engine fire." That was the last message from...