Word: propped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, as the newly appointed commander of the U.S. Air Force's Fourth (Sabre jet) Fighter Interceptor Group, Gabby, now a full colonel, got a chance to try his formula on Communist MIGs in Korea. Some 15 MIG-15 jets had pounced on a mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG-his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria...
...Housewives mobbed Macy's and some other department stores for bargains after the Supreme Court kicked the key prop from under...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
After failing to live up to its enthusiastic advance notices during three weeks in Manhattan, God Needs Men (TIME, April 16), a choice French import, was appearing last week in other U.S. cities under a new title calculated to prop up its sagging box-office appeal. The new title: Isle of Sinners...
Knife Sharp. The war was declared last week when Macy's trimmed 6% from 5,978 fair-traded items, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision which knocked a key prop from under fair-trade laws (TIME, June 4). Warned Macy's Richard Weil Jr.: if competitors matched the cuts, Macy's would slash prices another 6% "quicker than you can say 'knife.'" But Gimbels had its own knife ready. To keep tabs on Macy's, Gimbels set up a GHQ to direct its comparison shoppers, added 287 assistant buyers and its training squad...