Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio...
...aircraft manufacturers recaptured the world's speed record when a Douglas F4D jet Skyray averaged 753.4 m.p.h. over California's Salton Sea last week, cracking an eight-day-old record of 737.3 m.p.h., set by a British pilot in a Vickers Supermarine Swift...
...First four: Swift, Armour, Wilson, Cudahy...
Here is the story of the Preussen, the great German five-master, "without a doubt the greatest sailing-ship the world has seen...a supership, a swift giantess among all sailing-ships, the ultimate expression of deepwater Sail." When all of her 30 square-sails were stretched, she presented 60,000 square feet of canvas to the wind...
Fullback Ted Jackson was the Bobcat's biggest ground gainer last year, but the visitors also have a swift halfback named Tom Ascani and a good quarterback in Bill Frederick. Frederick possesses both a .429 completion average and a 6 foot 5 inch end named Lou Sawchik. The combination could hurt today