Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these are troubling charges. They have grown out of troubling practices." Other medical investigators, while agreeing with his basic tenets, are equally troubled by the way he used his data. The servicemen who did not get penicillin for strep throats, for example, were at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. When Western Reserve University's Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. began studying them in early 1949, no one knew whether penicillin was indeed the indispensable or even the best treatment. Rammelkamp had to continue his tests through 1953 to disprove another investigators claim that penicillin...
...million telephones, but the percentage is dropping. The remaining phones belong to 2,423 independent companies, largely centered in the Midwest, Far West and South-along with all of Hawaii and Alaska. The independents last year had combined revenues of $1.7 billion and, building on a smaller base, outplussed mammoth Bell in three categories: their revenue growth was 47% greater, their rate of new-plant investment was 35% higher, and their increase in telephones installed was 27% greater...
Opening the Doors. Last week Robinson advanced to a new base by being elected co-chairman and a director of Manhattan-based Hamilton Life Insurance Co., which has $527 million worth of policies in force throughout the U.S. Friends brought Robinson together with Hamilton's chief, Philip J. Goldberg, who owns 40% of the company's stock. Goldberg offered him quite a deal: Robinson could name four directors for Hamilton's 17-man board-including himself and his brother-in-law, Schenley Vice President Charles T. Williams-and the Robinson group could buy 30,000 of Goldberg...
Royko had no intention of making' journalism a career until he landed in the Ai" Force. Threatened with a job as cook or MP at Chicago's O'Hare Air Force Base, he stumbled onto the fact that the base newspaper needed an editor and talked his way into the job. It didn't last long. He wrote a story about a softball pitcher whose tour of duty had been extended so that he could play in a championship game. When the expose appeared, the base commander shut down the paper and transferred Royko to officers...
Stealing Second Base. Continental's celerity is largely the work of its longtime (since 1938) President Robert Forman Six, a onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits...