Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great birds (wingspan: about 7 ft.) go through such distressingly gooney antics that Navymen long ago dubbed them gooney birds. Among other things, they need large, clear areas to take off and land, and they find airports ideal. The friendly gooney birds lay their big eggs on or near the runways, rise in clouds as if to welcome planes on landing or to see them off on takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that...
...days it was touch and go. First Denett seemed the weaker, then Jeanett sank alarmingly, with mucus threatening to choke her. Surgeons cut a hole in her neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...Time for Lunch. Last week Dr. Sills was in practice in Plains with his wife-nurse-receptionist-bookkeeper. They were as busy as they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices...
...Americus hospital, is back for office hours in Plains by 9. Says he: "I average 15 to 20 patients a day, and have worked every day since I came here. We try to close for lunch at 12, but we never can-something always comes up. At night I go back to the hospital and make house calls. The big need around here is for house calls, and I make two or three a day.'' Dr. Sills charges $3 for an office visit, $1.50 for an injection, but cuts the fees for the poor. Negro patients make...
...face heavy layoffs in the next few weeks. General Motors has already laid off 60,000 of its 330,000 production workers, will lay off another 60,000 this week. Chevrolet's Framingham, Mass, plant is closed; all but three of Chevy's other twelve assembly plants go down this week. Some of Chrysler's plants are on a four-day basis, and the companies may have to close some parts and components plants altogether this month because of the two-week to one-month lead time for steel to be fabricated after shipment from the mill...