Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...share to 91?. Said Revlon President Charles Revson: "1959 should be the largest year we ever had." National Biscuit Co. expects first-quarter earnings to be about the same as last year, but looks for "continued improvement" in sales and earnings for the rest of 1959; General Baking Co. and Hiram Walker distillers both reported increased quarterly profits...
...Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models, the men proved better drivers; they won in eight. Winners in the six general classes...
Ochlophobia. In Bumble Bee, Ariz, (four houses, one general store), Prospector Don Netherlan, 81, was missing for two weeks, later explained to worried friends:"! just had to get out of the city...
...incident catches much of the quality of this fine book, a counterpoise of violence and reflection. Ogburn was one of 3,000 officers and men who volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty overseas. Under command of Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill, they were formed into the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a name more appropriate to a laundry battalion than to a detachment trained to fight far behind the Japanese lines in Burma. TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Shepley salved the unit's pride by christening it "Merrill's Marauders...
Around the Bend. They were all sorts -religious idealists, graduates of Army guardhouses, drunkards, professional bad-men, adolescent adventurers; their one unifying trait was that they seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...