Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windward Anchor. In Jersey City, as part of its series of lectures on "Job Opportunities in Business Today," the Jersey City Junior College scheduled a talk which included instructions on how to collect unemployment insurance...
...senior tackles, Joe Finnegan and Walt Clemens, anchor the line and since they are Hickman's defenders as well as his best offensive men at their positions, they play both ways. Finnegan, a 189-pound New Haven townic, has had hard luck in the form of a broken leg in 1947, and an appendectomy in 1948, but managed to become a regular last fall. Clemens, at 187, was one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" of the 1949 line...
...better than well. In the first event of a three-day low-score competition, first Arthur McCashin, then Mrs. Durand turned in faultless rides. The British and the Mexicans, whose team included the skilled woman rider, Lieut. Eva Valdes, hung up low scores too. That left it up to "Anchor Man" Norma Mathews, top-ranking U.S. rider, to bring home the ribbons. The crowd edged up on their seats as the blue-eyed blonde came into the ring astride heir pinto mount, Country...
...long run, probably nothing of the Asian mainland could be held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...
Despite the pickup, K-F thought it had better have an anchor to windward. Last week Chairman Henry J. Kaiser asked the stockholders to authorize the company to go into the shipbuilding business. Kaiser, who made his reputation as a World War II shipbuilder operating seven Government-owned shipyards, now operates none. But with talk of a big new Government program (see Shipping), World War II's top shipbuilder thought that he could put his know-how to use developing a profitable sideline...