Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
...high speed and jumped the tracks, killing the engineer and injuring 24 people. Luckily, the conductor had just moved passengers out of the first five coaches, otherwise the toll might have been disastrous. Service on the New Haven's main line was snarled for five days while commuters rode to work by bus or detouring trains running up to an hour late. At week's end Massachusetts State Representative James L. O'Dea Jr. demanded a state investigation to find out if economy minded President McGinnis' 22% maintenance cut (from $44 million to $34 million...
Recalling Afghanistan's big moment in history, when the 18th century's Ahmad Shah made himself first King of the nomadic Afghan tribes and conquered all of northern India, Afghans still dream of spreading out once again. Last week Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah rode solemnly through Kabul's dusty, unpaved streets to the Shora-e-Milli (House of Representatives). There he urged his acquiescent Parliament to support the revolts of the Pathan tribes across the border in Pakistan, who are flesh and blood of King Zahir's own royal family. The British...
From 1947 to 1952 Busch rode his company as if it were a balky jumper, forced it over hurdle after hurdle. Overruling his conservative directors, Busch kicked off a $50 million expansion program for the St. Louis brewery to boost capacity 2,630,000 bbls. to 6,230,000 annually, rammed through a $34 million project for an East Coast brewery at Newark, another $25 million for the West Coast brewery. Production rose enough to put Anheuser-Busch in second place, right on the heels of Schlitz. Then, in 1953, Budweiser broke through. With the new Newark brewery capable...
...Pearl Harbor and now preaches in Japan as a Christian missionary, evokes the long-forgotten months when the Imperial Navy was top dog of the Pacific. The Midway invasion fleet that he describes numbered more than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength, the admirals agreed, was surprise. Its only fear was that the U.S. Navy might not dare come out and fight after the Imperial fleet opened the attack...