Word: rankin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replying for the government, Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin said that in passing the law, with its strike-ending emergency machinery, Congress sought to protect the interest of all the nation...
Swept by stiff ground winds, his chute fouled in a tree, and Pilot Rankin slammed headfirst into the tree trunk. He got up groggily, stiff, cold and numb, with his crash helmet knocked askew. He stumbled into a thicket, was for a moment almost hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly...
Last week, at the Beaufort (pronounced Bewfirt) Naval Hospital, where he is recovering from frostbite and shock, Pilot Rankin forecast, "I'll be back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep...
...seat free also trips a safety lever that sets the parachute's aneroid barometer into action. As the pilot falls, the increasing pressure compresses the metal diaphragm of the barometer. When the barometer records a pressure normal to 10,000 feet (the altitude was considerably higher in Rankin's case, because of the barometric turbulence of the storm), a strong spring releases the ripcord pin and the chute opens...
Died. Mary Teresa Norton, 84, buxom, bustling New Jersey Congresswoman for 26 years (1925-51), first woman Democrat elected to Congress (first Congresswoman: Montana's Republican Jeannette Rankin-1917-19, 1941-43), a scrappy debater, called by her respectful colleagues "Aunt Mary," who championed her political sponsor, New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, and social legislation; in Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred...