Word: banners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm, late-autumn sun shone down on the cemetery. The last notes of the Star-Spangled Banner floated up from the tomb, mingling with the faint purr of a jet airplane, invisible in the sky above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums...
...Governor Allan Shivers, began echoing Russell's praise. They thereby focused attention on one of the most remarkable men in U.S. public life: five-term Governor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How she), 59, who wears a mop of wildly tousled hair as though it were a banner of independence, and qualifies on the record as a superb politician, although he breaks every rule in the book-except the one for winning elections...
...Manhattan for the first of four concerts, during a month's North American tour, the Philharmonia looked much like any other orchestra. When Salzburg-born Conductor Herbert von Karajan took it through the Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the Queen, it sounded much like any other, too. But in a Mozart Divertimento, it became something special...
...Pont. In chemicals and mining, Union Carbide, Du Pont and National Gypsum all reported banner sales and earnings. At Union Carbide, President Morse G. Dial listed alltime record sales of $857 million, record earnings of $101 million for the first nine months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont hit new peaks with sales of $1.4 billion, earnings of $6.24 a share at the three-quarter mark v. $4.74 last year. In the booming electronics industry, civilian sales were so good that General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner could announce the second-best year in history thus far-sales...
...packed little hall in the Saar mining town of Illingen crackled with excitement. Behind the stage, huge and threatening, a black eagle glared down from a red banner with the three initials of the new Saar Democratic Party (DPS) slashed white across its breast. Party Chieftain Heinrich Schneider, a stocky, sad-eyed lawyer of 48, bounded onto the platform to speak. The crowd of coal miners-yellow-haired youngsters and grizzled, Russian-front veterans-stiffened in anticipation, ready to jump frenziedly at his every hoarse shout...