Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pride helped bring on that revolution. His Langley service, followed by tours aboard the Saratoga and the Lexington, established Pride as a top Navy flyer (he has logged some 5,000 air hours and today, at 57, is still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...
...Educator Dr. Frank A. Rose, 34, president of Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., for increasing the student body 100% and the endowment...
...Lexington, Kentucky's Keeneland Sale, the Aga Khan's nine-year-old bay mare, Masaka, was bought by Horsetrader A. B. Hancock Jr. for $105,000, highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred brood mare at a U.S. auction...
Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children...
...MILLER Lexington...