Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman and Generals Omar Bradley, Hoyt Vandenberg and Lightnin' Joe Collins rose to bow as Wherry introduced them. Then, Wherry led the girls out again, and the committee settled down to talk about the fate of the Western world...
...Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...
...inchers pounded for a few minutes and then all was dark and silent again. The Juneau swung about and cruised south for a few minutes, then north, then south. Thirty minutes passed, then 45. Sharply the voice of the lookout sang in the headphones: "Truck lights off the port bow...
...claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of baby foods.* His Gerber Products Co. last year grossed $42 million, netted $3,300,000. Babies are so important to President Gerber that he prints his annual report in pink & blue, with his own picture framed in a blue ribbon bow (see cut). Gerber follows the U.S. birthrate figures as eagerly as a Brooklyn fan scanning Dodger batting averages...
...waves, increased in force by the turning maneuver, continued straight down to the ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a speedboat making a sharp turn does somewhat the same thing. Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber...