Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing...
...million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative" but to spend the massive $5.3 billion requested by the Agriculture Department to keep the farmers happy. Secretary Wilson told a press conference that it would take "a lot of work" to hold Defense costs within the whopping $38 billion budgeted...
...bank in nearby Sellersburg, was headed their way. Pulling his cruiser across the highway, Walts began a check of passing cars. Among them was one driven by Louisville Factory Worker William G. Hassett, 25. The minister, seated in the squad car, watched his friend interrogate the driver, saw a scuffle, heard shots...
Although several Council members thought this letter "unrealistic" and saw the ad as just "another medium of publicity," others felt that the T-R was "a partisan mouthpiece in which I don't think we should advertise." Another member remarked that the T-R did no harm, since "many people throw it out anyway...
...presidential elections, to be held this fall. Just who that successor will be, no one can predict. Magsaysay so completely dominated Philippine politics and affections that in all likelihood he would have been nominated by both parties. There was no one like him -a man in whom Filipinos saw their best, just as he always saw the best in them...