Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...
...began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew, he was saying. 'I can't control it. Let's bail...
...seat, he hit the air like a bullet splattering against a steel wall. The blasting air stream broke his right arm, fractured his pelvis, pulled apart the ligaments of his left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke...
Wall Street still has its speculators. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, in a survey of 300,000 big, little and medium-sized investors, discovered that the vast majority bought for long-term investment and had no intention of selling, despite the recession. Even American Telephone & Telegraph Co., that staid old lady of the utilities, is getting to be a growth stock...
...Year Gone By (CBS, 3:30-5:30 p.m.). A fat table of contents of U.S. life in 1958, as ticked off by eleven scenarists including Critic John Mason Brown, Editor Russell Lynes, Educator James B. Conant, Newscaster Howard K. Smith...