Word: minnow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest merger in U.S. aviation history last week got off to a fast start. Not a minnow, but a pickerel of an industry began to swallow a whale. Vultee Aircraft, Inc. announced that it would buy the 440,000 shares of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. common stock now held or controlled by Consolidated's president, Major Reuben Fleet (TIME, Nov. 17). The price: $10,945,000, equal to $24.88 a share and less than 50? below the stock's alltime high. After formal contract signing in Consolidated's huge San Diego plant, Vultee's President Richard...
Patty Aspinall, 14-year-old Indianapolis minnow, set a new U. S. record for the 220-yd. breast stroke - 3 min., 7.8 sec., 1.2 sec. better than the mark set last summer by Japanese Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu. Little Patty used the exhausting butterfly stroke (an overarm stroke as in the crawl, with both arms moving together) for the full 220 yards...