Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major cause of the Club's rapid advance. Each man is attracted by the unfamiliarity of the sport, and gives all he has in learning it. With forty men on the squad, the competition is stiff, and the second team scrum has developed into almost as strong a unit as the first...
...gave $10,000 to establish a similar village in South Viet Nam, another $10,000 to rehabilitate 200 wounded Korean veterans in a third village. A fourth $10,000 went to buy 30 fishing junks for two more Korean villages, and yet another $10,000 sent a mobile health unit to combat disease in the Philippines...
...first radio broadcasts brought a response of British courage and skill reminiscent of the blitz. More than 200 potholers poured in from nearby towns. A clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes...
...pleasure in less rhapsodic praise. Women like it because its compact size (15.9 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, 108-in. wheelbase v. 17.3 ft. long, 6.4 ft. wide, 118-in. wheelbase for the standard Ford) makes it easy to handie in traffic, easy to park. The Rambler's unitized frame construction, in which body and frame are welded into a single unit (Ford, G.M. and Chrysler will also use this construction in their compact cars), eliminates most of the rattles and squeaks that often occur in other cars. With detachable front fenders and parts that are easily accessible, Rambler...
...much of the auto industry overtime pay was the rule. Ford's Ford Division was operating six days at five assembly plants. So was the Lincoln-Thunderbird unit, along with Studebaker-Packard and American Motors. George Romney's Ramblers set another production record: 8,550 cars turned out on the way up to a programed rate of 8,850. Still catching up from the effects of a strike-caused glass shortage, Plymouth was on a six-day week at the Detroit, Newark, Del. and Los Angeles assembly plants...