Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squat Russell Tongay could hardly wait to make a swimmer out of his first-born son. As a high-school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...masses, his first two companies, formed in 1899 and 1901, made expensive racing cars. In one of them, Ford became the first man to travel 90 m.p.h., and won such fame as a racer that he wrote, optimistically, to his wife's brother: "There is a barrel of money in this business." There wasn't: both companies went bankrupt...
...Powder Barrel. Rommel needed fast-moving quartermasters to carry out his formula for tactical success: hit the enemy first, hit him hard, keep hitting him when he is on the run. "I found again and again . . . the day goes to the side that is first to plaster its opponent with fire. The man who lies low and awaits developments usually comes off second best...
...expected a rational discussion of my arguments . . . But ... the mere mention of the strategic question worked like a spark in a powder barrel. The Fiihrer flew into a fury and directed a stream of completely unfounded attacks on us ... I began to realize that Adolf Hitler simply did not want to see the situation as it was, and that he reacted emotionally against what his intelligence must have told him was right...
...calls its plastic polythene) will soon have new competition from Texas Eastman, Dow, and probably National Petro-Chemicals, Spencer Chemical, and Monsanto. The two leaders, however, already have a big head start and valuable experience in poly production, which involves ultra-high pressures (equal to the pressure in the barrel of a 5-in. Navy antiaircraft gun when it is fired). Says Bakelite's President Bunn: "We have the lead and we intend to keep...