Word: armour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NUCLEAR REACTOR, the first for purely industrial research, will be built by Chicago's Armour Research Foundation. To cost $500,000 the reactor will be ready in a year, will be used to experiment in such fields as medical diagnosis, food-sterilization, plastic, glass and rubber products...
...replace Peurifoy at Guatemala City, the White House was ready this week to announce the appointment of Norman Armour, 66, one of the most able, loved and respected men in the career service, who has already come out of retirement several times when his country has called. A product of inherited wealth, Princeton and Harvard Law School, Norman Armour got his start under Joseph C. Grew (another diplomatic giant) in Vienna, married a White Russian wife whom he met during the Bolshevik revolution, has helped bolster U.S. prestige in 13 countries, including Franco's Spain and five posts...
...Open War. In 1937, on his first start, he blazed over the Oakland Hills Course at Detroit with a record-breaking 283. "Laddie," said Tommy Armour, "you've just won yourself a championship." But another youngster, Ralph Guldahl, finished with an even more sensational 281. In 1947 Snead tied with Lew Worsham to win the Open, then lost the play-off by the length of a 30 1/2-inch putt...
Roast in the Can. Low-priced canned beef will soon be put on the market by Swift, Armour and Hormel to capitalize on the recent drop in beef prices and an anticipated fall surplus of low-grade beef. The chopped-beef luncheon meat will resemble Spam, is expected to sell for 37? to 39? per 12-oz. can (v. about 47? for Spam...
...White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Herman Scharlau, a pro protég of Tommy Armour, won the Greenbrier Open golf tournament in a sudden-death play-off against Home Pro Sammy Snead. Scharlau, 33, won his first major tournament victory (and $2,000) when Snead flubbed a 2-ft. putt...