Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though some were certainly dead, the U.N. had solid evidence that many of the men had been Red prisoners at one time. Among 944 Americans on the list: Air Force Captain James A. Van Fleet Jr., West Pointer son of the former Eighth Army commander; Jet Ace Captain Harold E. Fischer, who bagged most of his ten enemy planes by disdaining the prized radar gunsight, relying instead on naked eyesight and "Kentucky windage...
PACIFIC Intermountain Express Co. (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950) expects to jump from eighth to first place among U.S. truckers if a deal to buy West Coast Fast Freight, Inc. is okayed by the I.C.C. With a combined fleet of more than 3,000 trucks, operating between Chicago and the West Coast, P.I.E. expects the companies' combined gross to hit $45 million this year, $4,600,000 more than the No. 1 U.S. trucker, Associated Transport, Inc., took in last year...
...boards (he is now an overseer of Harvard University). In 1938, he delivered a Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry Truman seized the U.S. steel industry in 1952, Randall, although his company is only the eighth largest steel producer, was chosen as the industry's spokesman. "This evil deed," he said in a blistering radio-TV speech, "without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O...
Assignment: Tomorrow (Sun., 7 p.m., NBC). An hour of film clips of big events (some of the stars: Churchill, Truman, Stevenson. Bernard Shaw) for the eighth anniversary of NBC's television news...
...Grisly Hours. Only in a few places did G.I.s disobey the Eighth Army order not to mingle with the enemy. Even then, it was not to "celebrate." A few days before the truce, marines on the western front had been engaged in a fierce fight with the Chinese. Two hundred bodies, all but a few of them Chinese, lay on East Berlin Hill and in the valley around the outpost. At the first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded...