Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat, and led the first big Marine victory in the Pacific (on Guadalcanal, where his 1st Marine Regiment killed 1,000 Japanese overnight on the Tenaru River). Perhaps his hardest fight came after the war, when President Truman and Pentagon brass tried to make the Marines a lightweight police force...
...FIRST LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN has been ordered by the Rock Island Lines for its 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run. The four-car train, to be made by ACF Industries, builders of Spain's aluminum "Talgo" (TIME, April 18, 1949), will be about one-half the weight per passenger of current trains, could carry 300 passengers up to 110 m.p.h. It is scheduled to be in service by Christmas...
What will Perlman do with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn...
...ought to know. In 40 years of guiding good boxers, light-fisted clowns and human cauliflowers through the sweaty jungles of prizefighting, he has learned to use the language as effectively as a Sixth Avenue pitchman. Out of his rowdy-ringside wisdom he has fashioned some fine tigers, e.g., Lightweight Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolle. Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer. With either breed of cat, Hurley has promoted many a rapid dollar...
...Lockheed has built a lightweight fighter called the F-104 tor the Air Force, but because of security restrictions can say only that the new plane, reportedly supersonic, is now being flight-tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California...