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...such cases in El Paso, and surgeons elsewhere have seen scores more, mostly around military bases. For whereas the organized fast-draw clubs, encouraged by the firearms industry, make sure that their would-be Wyatt Earps and Marshal Dillons use only blank ammunition or wax bullets, too many young servicemen practice the game with full-load ammunition complete with lead slug. For economy's sake, they usually content themselves with a .22-caliber weapon. This can do plenty of damage, but a heavier weapon is far worse. One of Captain Duffy's patients used a .38, which broke...
Shell homes were launched 17 years ago by an enterprising young truck driver named Jim Walter, who went into busi ness with $600 borrowed from his father. The idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing...
...consolidating individual Marine and Army textile plants in Philadelphia, it saved $1,500,000 on overhead alone. - By deciding that servicemen can eat ordinary soda crackers instead of those meeting precise "military specifications," it saved $93,000 on each 1.5 million lbs. purchased...
...efforts came to nought, Irene's finest hour was sending her nubile, 19-year-old daughter Angeline to the White House in 1958 to seek justice, with a rusty, 9-ft. chain padlocked around her neck. The key was mailed to President Eisenhower, who ordered secret servicemen to return it to Angeline. Angeline unlocked her chain necklace, padlocked it securely on the main gate of the Executive Mansion, and strolled off, leaving the U.S. in something of a bind...
...COMMANDER IN CHIEF in his 2,400-mile trip, reviewing the servicemen who stood at the ready in the week of the Cuban crisis...