Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luis is sure that the only fundamental cure for his island's troubles is more plants, more jobs and more goods at home. If Puerto Rico can build up industry, and get on top in her battle of production, then a growing population will be an asset instead of a liability. For Muñoz and his people the slogan is still: "Jalda Arriba...
...previous start, Webb shut out New Prep on two hits for seven innings without walking a single opponent. Pitching, and above all control, has been the freshmen's greatest asset thus far this season...
...with a speculative eye. An A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
...Horse. The day after Pearl Harbor, this air service became a prime military asset to the U.S. as a means of quick transport across the oceans. On the routes which Trippe had first plotted with a piece of string on the globe in his office, the armed forces built their huge transport service. Drafted by the Army & Navy as a contract carrier, Pan Am ferried high brass, spies, planes and war materials into Africa, Europe and Asia, and built 53 airports. Its payroll swelled from 4)395 to 88,000 and its Lisbon base for a time was the only...
...Hogan uses to dominate golf are the characteristics of any champion, developed with infinite care. As a golfer, of course, one great part of his game rests on his swing. In Hogan, a natural left-hander who switched to a right-handed game, it is strictly a manufactured asset, put together piece by piece and grooved by endless hours of dogged practice. Bobby Jones used to swing with drowsy, easy grace. Hogan stands with knees flexed, fanny protruding, toes pointed slightly outward -and swings with all the business-like authority of a machine stamping out bottle caps. He flatly insists...