Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North American's PSI Mustang, which probably has the longest tactical range (some 600 miles) of any U.S. fighter, so far as any official announcement has been made, mounts six .50-cal. machine guns, can carry at least a 1,000-lb. bomb load...
...high as the gun sounded for the sweepstakes. Little Joe, with ebony-skinned Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...
...smiling: "Maybe it would be better if we both didn't run." Newspaper speculation, spurred by the Lemke incident, began to assume more & more that Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast his July acceptance of the Democratic nomination in the most glamorous manner possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage of his position as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, perhaps from a strategy conference in London. In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since 1939. Said...
...spell with the Columbia School of Journalism, Mark Gaynre turned to Shanghai as foreign correspond ent for the Washington Post. On the side he worked for the famed Japanese news agency, Domei. "Rich, aggressive, news-wise and Empire-conscious," the agency inspired Gayn with "an almost pathologi cal curiosity about Japan." When Japan had begun its war with China, Domei did its best to keep Mark Gayn, nattered him, tolerated his anti-Japanese tirades in the Washington Post, even had him vaccinated for cholera and smallpox by the per sonal physician of the commander-in-chief of Nippon...
...only U.S. university heads in office longer than Hutchins are Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler (42 years), Clark's Wallace Walter Atwood (23 years) and Cal Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan (22 years...