Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point and South Bend, Ind., a joint statement announced resumption of a football rivalry that has long claimed the vociferous attention of the nation's largest body of subway alumni. After a ten-year lapse, Army will meet Notre Dame again, this time in a home & home series: at Notre Dame Stadium (capacity: 56,000) in 1957; at Army's Michie Stadium (capacity...
...oval test track outside South Bend, Ind., a red-and-cream Studebaker hard top whisked along the straightaway. It swept into a steeply banked curve, worked up to the outer edge and hung there as it rounded the turn with hardly any slackening of speed. Then, like a dive bomber peeling off for attack, it whipped out of the turn and shot into the straightaway again. Around & around the three-mile track the car whirled, hour after hour. Average speed for eight hours: 75 m.p.h...
...More Than You Promise." When they set up their village smithy and wagon-building shop in South Bend 101 years ago, brothers Clement and Henry Studebaker had just $68 to their name. But soon they and three other brothers were cashing in on the nation's great push westward making covered wagons for the pioneers and carts and carriages for the local trade. "Always give the customer more than you promise," was their motto, "but not too much, or you'll go broke." One of the company's first formal contracts was brief and to the point...
...Potomac is one-half mile wide at the race-course site, and consequently some problem will exist if winds are high. In such a case, however, an alternate course, around a bend, would be used...
...turning out products that were mere dreams a few years ago. Around Boston, a cluster of companies spew forth such electronic gadgets as diodes and transistors, computers and magnetron tubes. In Cambridge, Mass., along "Research Row" on the Charles River, scientists from M.I.T., Harvard and numerous companies bend over their gurgling test tubes, devising new products and methods for plastics, electronics and other industries. In Cohasset, Mass., a small seashore town, D. S. Kennedy Co. turns out giant radar antennas; in Barre, Vt., even the Rock of Ages Corp., tombstone maker, is making capacitators for use in radio and television...