Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...
...Mack (The Original Amateur Hour) "In contrast to Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, and Bert Parks . . . he is an eminently serious person who communicates to the audience a feeling of the importance, usefulness and rightness of his program. Respondents' references to him are quite reminiscent of the things they might say of an ideal arbiter, coach, Scout leader or father...
...further civilian production cuts will soon be coming (see above"). Nash-Kelvinator, reporting for nine months, showed a 40% drop in net (to $13' million) and Studebaker's six-month profit was halved (to $7,600,000). Brightest spot in the automotive field: the newly revitalized Mack Trucks (TIME, Feb. 19), whose net soared from $64,000 to $1,900,000, even though taxes jumped nearly fifteenfold...
...predict overwhelming success for Dr. Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers [TIME, July 9]. The picture of the hay rake in the child's mouth was so terrifying to my 3½-year-old daughter that she hasn't had her thumb in her mouth since...
...doesn't Dentist Mack try to spend a few nights with a hay rake attached to his own teeth to find out how the children feel when they accidentally brush their tongues against that torture contraption while sleeping...