Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sale puts American Airlines a big jump ahead of its competitors in disposing of its piston fleet (now more than half sold); it also makes Fred Ayer, president and sole owner of his firm, easily the world's biggest aircraft dealer, puts him in a commanding position to cash in on the used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes...
...district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills...
Captain Ned Weld, playing first singles, led off the rout when he took less then a half hour to dispose of Cadet lefthander Hank Fisher, 6-2, 6-0. Weld started fairly slowly, as he had against M.I.T.'s Raul Karman last Wednesday, allowing Fisher's errors to give him the opening games. But in the second set the Crimson captain was very sharp, and, with his service clicking beautifully, he ran through Fisher in short order...
...varsity lacrosse team suffered its first regular season loss, 16 to 6, at the hands of Cornell in Ithaca Saturday. After falling behind 12 to 2 at the half, the Crimson managed to hold the Big Red even throughout the third and fourth periods...
...first period, Bohn scored his only goal of the afternoon, assisted by Nick Lamont. In the second period, Bill Parks tallied unassisted. Charlie Devens, Dave Birch, and Jerry Pyle--who sank two--accounted for the four second-half goals...