Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
When the Army launched its Canol pipeline-&-refinery project, the price for oil was fixed at $1.25 a barrel (plus production costs). The new price: 20? (plus production costs). Said Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: "The new agreement is fundamentally a matter of insurance that in the future the defense of the continent will not be endangered as it was early in 1942 by lack of locally produced...
...lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week. He was the Philadelphia Orchestra's chunky, barrel-chested Maestro Eugene Ormandy. The lease was arranged (through OWI) at the request of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which expects Ormandy to conduct at least 18 symphony concerts in big Australian cities, as many Australian army camps as he can reach in ten weeks of touring...
Beasts of Burden. In Maryville, Tenn., Times Editor Clyde B. Emert reported that officers who raided a nearby still found that the lazy bootleggers had substituted active mud turtles for their own stirring of the mash barrel...
...press room, went upstairs to notify the editors. On returning, he and the editors found the press room clogged with a grayish-white smoke. The bomb was found, and with difficulty removed from the building by Dana Fernald, Editor. The Cambridge Fire Department finally extinguished the bomb in a barrel of water...