Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying bug in 1926. He took ten hours of flight instruction, started his own school the next year at St. Louis Municipal Airport with himself as the entire faculty. A few weeks later he cracked up, lost his left eye and ended his flying instructor's career...
Class Unity. In Marion County, Ore., at eighth-grade graduation Howard Wilson was valedictorian, salutatorian, class historian, had been the only member of his class nearly all his school career...
...McCarthy victory turned one more page of a storybook career. The grandson of an Irish immigrant, he started out as a grocery clerk, worked his way through law school and was elected at 29 the youngest circuit judge in Wisconsin history...
...Pressure. Thus ended the notable political career of Clare Luce. It had begun, formally, in September 1942 when she accepted a nomination for Congress as her war-job. The U.S. was still on the defensive. Before Pearl Harbor and afterwards, Clare Luce had seen as much of the war around the world as any American civilian-and she had very strong ideas on the nature of the catastrophe into which the U.S. and the world had been betrayed by a variety of follies and stupidities. She wanted a more vigorous war effort and a more intelligent foreign policy after...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...