Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb encomium to Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. He did not need a silver spoon to find success; he did it with a $5 Bible and hard, conscientious work. He is doing an excellent job in Washington and we should elect him President...
...Major Joseph E. Barrett, 33, a tough but affable World War II veteran from Rule, Texas. Flying B-175, Pilot Barrett was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, spent 19 months in a German prison camp. In 1947 he transferred to helicopters, logged 250 combat hours in Korea, won a Silver Star for flying a shell-chopped chopper 70 miles behind enemy lines to retrieve a wounded fighter pilot...
...powerful radar transmitter ten feet away for less than a minute died within a fortnight. Thus, last week, reported California Surgeon John T. McLaughlin, an industrial medical consultant. There were no marks on the victim's body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing "intolerable" rises in tissue temperatures...
...better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate of a million bales of cotton each year. U.S. growers can either compete for that market or hand it over "on a silver platter" to foreign growers or to synthetics...
...Silver Chord. In Dearborn, Mich., Gerald Kiwak was puzzled at the parakeet sitting on his fence squawking "luzonone-fournineninetwo," until his mother tried the number, returned the bird to its relieved owner-trainer...