Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open hatch of one plane, a man climbing up the ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...
Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
...famous infielder started his professional baseball career with Haverhill of the old Eastern League immediately upon graduating from high school Connie Mack picked up the youngster, then a shortstop, and put him at first base, where he played with four Philadelphia pennant-winning team...
Retirement seemed out of the question for 69-year-old Grace Coolidge. Down from Northampton, Mass., with a youngster's snap-eyed enthusiasm, the widow of the 30th President of the U.S. saw the World Series in Boston, looking for all the world like a travel agency ad plugging the good life in New England...
...minded youngster around Chicago, chunky George T. Baker bought an old plane and barnstormed around the Midwest and Florida. Later, in Miami, he started National Airlines, Inc. with one plane, and made money by doubling as mechanic, ticket salesman and hangar-sweeper. By 1944, when he was operating seven planes, the Civil Aeronautics Board was so impressed by his line that it awarded him such rich scheduled routes as the New York-Miami and Miami-Havana runs. Overnight the onetime feeder line became one of the potentially richest trunkline carriers...