Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasionally mistaken for each other because of the similarity of our names. Until Max's record-breaking flight, I was always able to clear up the confusion between us by saying that he has ten children and I have only two, and that he has flown the ocean many times and I never have. Now I can only talk about
Following the Plot. In McClusky, N. Dak., two farm hands were caught stealing grain to raise enough money to see the movie The Ten Commandments...
Last week Tommy's parents, free on bond, appealed the case to the Washington County district court. As a last resort, they may send Tommy to a private school in St. Paul 25 miles away, but never back to public school ("It would set him back ten years"). Though their rebellion has cost them $1,000 so far, the Krals aim to establish their rights in a legal battle straight to the top. "We may have to mortgage our home," says Mary Krai. "But if it takes every penny, we will fight...
...near-record first-quarter profits of $374 million after taxes represented 11.7% of stockholders' equity, higher than in U.S. manufacturing as a whole (10% of equity); second-quarter earnings are expected to be even rosier. But the Government's report also pointed out that over the last ten years steel has not done as well as other industries, and steel companies complain that their present good showing is largely the result of stockpiling in anticipation of a strike. Their big argument is that profits are not even enough to pay for expansion and modernization; U.S. Steel alone...
Even after that, the military life held a fascination for Fred, and in 1951 it offered him his most memorable role: Surgeon Lieut. Joseph Cyr of the Royal Canadian Navy. Demara's medical training consisted of a basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published...