Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, was the last illness of Warren Harding, who lay disabled for five days in San Francisco's Palace Hotel before he died. Harding's attack was diagnosed at first as a stomach upset, was later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center." Close associates of Franklin...
...slowpokes were the other two Voodoo pilots: Captain Ray Schrecengost, 31, flew the round trip at an average speed of 671.4 m.p.h.; Captain Robert Kilpatrick, 32, flew the first leg (landing at McGuire) averaging 765.68 m.p.h. Rewards for all four: the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sweet and Klatt, Air Medals to Schrecengost and Kilpatrick...
...County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts plant. Sperry Rand and Electronic Communications, Inc. (aeronautical instruments) have also recently finished multimillion-dollar plants...
Married. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 68, hawk-faced, publicity-shy Texas oil multimillionaire; and blue-eyed onetime Stenographer Ruth Ray Wright, 41; both for the second time; in Dallas...
...trade in less than 24 hours yesterday, swapping Minnie Minoso, their righthanded power hitter, and infielder Fred Hatfield to the Cleveland Indians for pitcher Early Wynn and outfielder Al Smith. Yesterday the Chisox sent Larry Doby and Jack Harshman to Baltimore in return for Billy Goodman, Tito Francona and Ray Moore...