Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miracle Man." Al Whitney's father was a circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary...
Madame Quo Tai-chi of China, who (like all the U.N. delegates' wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...
...three, an utter stranger apprenticed me to a basket weaver in Guatemala. I soon learned to weave with such dexterousness that, by the time my second teeth arrived, I was known throughout the village as the basket child of Guatemala...
North American will be turning out ten Navions a day by August. But Dutch no longer has all his eggs in one basket. While working on the Navion, North American's engineers turned out a new military fighter plane, did such a good job that the Army & Navy have ordered $75,000,000 worth...
...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...