Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
...improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast, and on one flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted 2,650 casualties off the improved airstrip at Hagaru...
...West should seek a cease-fire in Korea, then try to bargain with Red Leader Mao Tse-tung for a working agreement with Asian Communism...
...pitchmen's techniques: "Whenever a performer demonstrates an article and sells it, he's a pitchman. Arthur Godfrey is one of the greatest; he has many of the pitch techniques." But Kaye looks with tolerant amusement on Sid Stone, an apostle of the high pitch whose rapid-fire commercial spiels for Texaco are an adornment of the Milton Berle show. "Stone's not a pitchman," Kaye says condescendingly, "he's just an entertainer...
...They can absorb an astonishing amount of battle damage and bring their pilots home alive. In Korea, up to mid-November, the Air Force's busiest jets (Lockheed F80 Shooting Stars) flew 57% of the fighter missions and suffered only 25% of the losses due to enemy antiaircraft fire. The Navy made a similar report on its Grumman F9F Panther...