Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Sun Life delivered its own counterblow. To make its stock harder to grab, the officers split the shares 10-for-1. Said a company spokesman: "I think we've stopped the raid." But it already looked as if the Aliens might cash in on their latest "special situation." To keep the loyalty of its other stockholders, jittery Sun Life last week hinted that the $2 dividend rate on the split stock would soon be boosted to $3 a share. If so, Stockholder Allen would get the raise, along with the rest...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
...been different in World War II. The Japanese, landing on Attu and Kiska, had tied up ten U.S. divisions. The Navy, hard-pressed at the crucial battle of Midway, had nonetheless spared five cruisers, 13 destroyers and six submarines to defend the big peninsula against a diversionary raid. Air bases were strewn along the coast and down the Aleutians at enormous cost: in 1942 the Army diverted desert-camouflaged planes intended for Africa to defend the very areas where the U.S. was now closing out bases...
Across the road from his office was Kim's private air-raid bunker, 70 to 100 feet underground and connected by a tunnel with the residence of his Russian advisers. In the bunker Kim had complete living quarters, a music room with an organ and a one-chair barber shop...
This documentary was originally filmed by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1944. It tells the story of a single B-24 in its raid on the Ploesti oil fields, and of the thrilling escape of the plane's crew after it is shot down unintentionally by Yugoslav anti-aircraft batteries. This has some of the best Technicolor action shots to come out of the war. It is at the Exeter in Boston...