Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer his grandfather, a retired whaling captain who lived outside New Bedford, took him sailing in his catboat, taught him how to tie sailor's knots and to eat salt pork (anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
Main stock in trade of the club is a contract with the East Cost Aviation Company, which provides planes to members at half regular price and assumes all liability for damage. The company operates at Bedford Army Air Station, a state-owned field 30 minutes away from the Square...
Main stock in trade of the club is a contract with the East Coast Aviation Company, which provides planes to members at half regular price and assumes all liability for damage. The company operates at Bedford Army Air Station, a state-owned field 30 minutes away from the Square...
...rambling, bulky Anthony Adverse (2 ¾Ibs., 1,224 pp.), published when he was 44, brought him fame & fortune; of a heart attack; in Miami. Writer also of a major work on Poe (Israfel, 1926), Author Allen had completed before his death three volumes (The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, Toward the Morning) of a proposed pentalogy (The Disinherited) about colonial America...
...Motors' Allison plant turned out more than 2,000 jet engines in 1949. (General Electric and Westinghouse were not far behind.) The Bakelite Corp. found a new use for vinyl resins in making window shades, predicted an annual market of 85 million shades in that field alone. New Bedford, Mass, got its first all-nylon mill; in Taftville, Conn., the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. transformed field corn into a new fiber called "Vicara," to be used for ties, scarves, etc. In Ohio, found-rymen excitedly poured experimental batches of "nodular iron," hoped that the new process, using magnesium, might...