Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Stuffed in odd places around home were a full share of tarnished Navy Crosses, D.F.C.s and Air Medals from World War II. But for four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland...
...past four years, the U.S. has spent about $50 billion for its national defense. Events of the past four weeks have caused people to wonder what the money bought. What...
...Even in the atomic age, war has a way of turning back to its past. Last week's action of the Juneau was reminiscent of the time C. S. Forester's hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, commanding H.M.S. Sutherland, shelled a mule train on a coastal road between Malgret and Aren de Mar during Wellington's Peninsular campaign...
...Though he has had brief trials with the Indians in the past three years, including a pinch-hitting role in the 1948 World Series (he failed to hit), this is his first full season...
...rumor that cropped up most frequently in Hollywood during the past decade was that United Artists Corp., once one of the most profitable of Hollywood companies, would be sold. U.A. was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. (Birth of a Nation) Griffith to distribute films made independently by each of the partners. Now Fairbanks and Griffith were dead, Mary Pickford made no pictures and Chaplin almost none. All that the company had to offer a prospective buyer was a famous name and a system of 32 film distribution exchanges...