Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British gun designers turned to a much smaller weapon: a .276-cal. automatic rifle with a light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...
...Loss. Until five years ago, Georgia-Pacific wasn't making any plywood at all. It was merely a lumber company known as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. which Owen Cheatham had started 20 years ago in a tiny Augusta, Ga. bungalow. After he graduated from a military academy, young Cheatham spent a few years learning the lumber business in several small companies, before he started Georgia Hardwood with $6,000 of his own and $12,000 borrowed from friends. A crack salesman, Cheatham sold $250,000 in lumber the first year, netted $24,000. The company has made money...
Savannah, Ga...
Those Characters. "When we go up now," said Jet Ace Colonel Francis Ga-breski, "we spend 59 out of every 60 seconds looking over our shoulders." Nevertheless, last week the fast U.S. jets scored their biggest one-day kill of the war: 13 MIGs destroyed, two probables, one damaged. Only one Sabre was lost. , Although the Sabres have consistently given the MIGs a bad beating, the Red jet is a first-class military fighter, a nimbler craft in maneuver, a faster climber, with more speed above 32,000 feet than the heavier, longer-ranged Sabre. Among reasons for the Sabre...
When little Carolyn Joan Purcell had trouble seeing her Christmas gifts last year, Atlanta doctors thought she had cancer and would have to lose both eyes. But the Mayo Clinic disagreed, called it merely an infection, treated her with ACTH. In Alpharetta, Ga. last week 5-year-old Carolyn Joan's eyes sparkled at sight of the 1951 tree she had not been expected...