Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like shaggy ghosts, and behind them lights marked the 500-ft. tower that held the bomb. Near by, TV crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like a potato chip...
...world's biggest privately owned railroad moved a hard-driving engineer into the front cab last week. Norris Roy ("Buck") Crump, 50, a veteran railroader who began his career as a 16-year-old track laborer, was elected president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., the $2 billion transportation empire, largely owned by U.S. and British investors, that is Canada's richest corporation...
...five-part series on Chasanow's troubles, stirred up so much interest that the Navy reviewed the case, cleared Chasanow. The series won Tony Lewis the $500 annual American Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Award for enterprising reporting. One of the honorable-mention winners for the same prize: Veteran (20 years) Reporter James B. ("Scotty") Reston, now chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
Half helicopter, half airplane, the stubby-winged XV1 made its second test flight one morning last week at an air field near St. Louis. Veteran Test Pilot John Noll warmed up the small Continental engine (less than 500 h.p.) behind his glass-enclosed "greenhouse"; two compressors began feeding air through tubes to small "pressure jets" at the tips of the three overhead rotor blades. As Noll opened the throttle, the fuel in the pods began burning in small, roaring jet gusts, expelling the hot air, spinning the rotor and lifting the aircraft off the ground. At 4,000 ft., ready...
Ideal rowing conditions for the morning trials changed to biting easterly winds as the temperature dropped in the afternoon. The whitecaps in the Basin forced Col. Howard W. Robbins, veteran referce, to postpone the finals until late...