Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state aid in the interval before the regular 1960 census count. The contracts were signed, the counters went to work, and Wagner saw to it that the census takers even counted in the crew of an aircraft carrier and the cast of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus...
...made its decision to use Sanders this year in part, because of these improvements, David W. Bailey '21, secretary of the Corporation said yesterday. He expressed the hope that the new facilities will attract many more features in the future...
...white students who scrubbed the drive clean. Said one: "This reflects on the name of the school, and we don't want that." Winston-Salem's only integrated Negro student entered, passed about 100 white students. Not one offered insult. A few smiled hello. Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey, 15, walked into the school auditorium and quietly took her place among her fellow students...
Says Catcher Ed Bailey: "Hell, he changed me all the way around. He taught me more the one year I was sitting on the bench than I learned in my whole life; situations, how to go, what to do. He taught me how to get the ball away quicker in a throw, how to move easier on defense. I was probably the world's worst fly ball catcher. He taught me how to get out and get under...
Wheelbarrow to Millionaire. The magnitude of modern road building and the steadily rising cost of new equipment (up nearly 70% since 1947) have made it harder for the smaller contractor to survive. Says Talbot Bailey, vice president of Oakland's Fredrickson & Watson Construction Co.: "There used to be a time when you could just take a wheelbarrow and start out in this business-and work up to be a millionaire. Those days are gone forever. You need a lot of capital today." In the '30s a mile of concrete road could be laid...