Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also announced that it would muster out the famed 4th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack), which, with its 125 horses and mules, was created in 1907 for mountain and jungle fighting, saw action in World War II (Burma, Italy). Replacing the Army mule: the experimental 4th Airphibious Field Artillery Firing Unit-a helicopter group...
Electronic Editor. Electronic weather forecasting is now being done with steadily increasing success by the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit at Suitland, Md., where the Air Force, Navy and Weather Bureau have pooled their forces. Weather information flows into the machines from both ground stations and upper-air probes. Some 1,400 punched cards cover North America. Other information equally important comes from the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, including Soviet Russia and Communist China. The machine even "edits" the raw data, selecting from masses of figures the special ones wanted, such as air pressure at 18,000 ft. over...
...Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000-man Local 1014 at U.S. Steel's Gary (Ind.) plant, the Steelworkers' biggest unit. Even McDonald's home local 1272 at Jones & Laughlin's southside plant in Pittsburgh passed the protest resolution...
...their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result, the line has laid off some 1,000 of its original 1,350 drivers, is also planning to sell part of its 500-unit tractor fleet...
...University of Maryland, one of the schools with a trial unit, only two girls are at present participating in the program although Colonel Kendig, professor of Air Sciences and Tactics, hopes that with increased publicity, the unit will soon expand...