Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshall Melin, heading a moonwatch team atop to Harvard Observatory, said several persons there thought they saw the satellite but Melin did not feel they were reliable sightings...
Having recently been through the mill, most farmers were being prudent with their new prosperity. In Fresno, Calif., heart of the San Joaquin Valley machine-farming area, Julius Neilsen, Bank of America farm-loan representative, said: "I never saw so many farmers come in ahead of time and pay off their loans." The Iowa Life Insurance Co. reported its sales to farmers through April were up 78% over last year. And, said Red Oak Agent Stanley Fagerland: "When the farmer gets around to buying life insurance, you know he is getting back on his feet...
Suddenly Obie saw two rows of lights. He banked sharply to the right, lined his plane up with the runway and with power on, poured straight for it. Firefighting crews, an ambulance, staff cars and red-blinking emergency trucks shrieked down the runway in pursuit. Obie neatly kissed his plane down. "I flew it into the ground. I wasn't strapped to the seat. I was just sitting. I never made a better landing in my life. I couldn't make a better one in a hundred thousand years." When the plane stopped, he jumped out. Shocked...
...hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores, went home only when Pianist Oscar Peterson, in desperation, played God Save the Queen...
...Small cars are just a phase," says Atlanta Medical Technician Jewell Mitchell, who drives a well-cared-for 1956 Cadillac. "They're not comfortable, and I'm afraid I'll wind up under somebody's front bumper. Why, the other day I saw a small foreign car with a sign saying: 'Don't run over me. I squash bugs...