Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent a year as a Veterans Administration patient. When the U.S. got into the Korean war, he promptly reenlisted in the Marines. Since the corps has a rule against sending men with more than two Purple Hearts into combat, Ireland needed special authorization to get into a front-line unit. The word came down from the Marines' commandant, General Clifton B. Gates: "If the sergeant wants to fight, let him fight...
...million River Park center, planned for a 90-acre site just off the Schuylkill Expressway near Philadelphia's city line. When it is completed, it will have a hotel, three 770-unit apartment buildings and an office building, each twelve stories high, 70 shops, and parking for 6,000 cars...
...become buddies to stick together, instructs officers to begin putting together four-man teams during the early weeks of training. Once picked, the men will team up in the field, sit together in mess halls, bunk in the same barracks space. Theoretically, they will be transferred overseas as a unit and will not be separated on troopships. The regulation, however, contains the phrase "wherever possible" at regular intervals, a piece of forethought regarded cynically by some soldiers but with a certain sense of relief by others-since Regulation 600-150-10. unlike the civil laws relating to marriage, contains...
...kept production high and costs down with the help of an incentive payment plan. The company, which pays its 12,000 workers a good (for England) minimum weekly wage ($14 for men, $10.50 for women), provides increases for any group of workers which lowers the man-hour cost per unit. Says he: "If all British industries would adopt such an incentive scheme, we'd clear up our economic troubles overnight...
...million and last week Muntz, now 39, announced that he is ready to invade a new business, air conditioning. Two years ago he bought the tools, dies and inventory of Tropicair Air Conditioner, plans to turn out a half-ton conditioner listing at $239 and a three-quarter ton unit at $269, about 30% less than existing models. Muntz's design has a new wrinkle: a glass-fiber cabinet which is much lighter than metal, needs no paint, forestalls unsightly rust stains dripping down the outside of buildings from metal-cased window units...