Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-town centers of muscular little businesses, the web of great railroads, the cities of big and busy mills. True, Pittsburgh, sprawling to the westward, was disorderly, recently strikebound, and Democratic-controlled. But Pittsburgh was neatly fenced off by a gerrymander. In 1943 Ed Martin had signed the gerrymandering bill which had cut down Pittsburgh's Democratic influence. Ed had remarked: "It's just the good old American way. When we Republicans were in the minority we bellyached when they ran over us. It just has to be done...
Advance Continued. At the time Ed Martin joined up, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, the cherubic, wealthy Quaker millowner and cold, shrewd defender of high tariffs, was rising to power. "Uncle Joe" Grundy, as Martin still calls him, had been dictating tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...
...Torontonians were startled to learn that Casa Loma had been the hush-hushest of all Canadian war plants. In 1942, when the Germans bombed out an English plant making supersecret sonic submarine detectors, the British Admiralty picked the engineering works of William Gorman, in Toronto, to do the job. Bill Corman picked an unlikely spot: the huge Casa Loma's stables...
...their initial race the Yardlings faced stiff opposition, but came out slightly better than the Varsity with a 21 to 35 loss. Dartmouth's R. F. Anderson led the pack in the three-mile junior circuit to record a time of 17:28. Bill Baker, Al Redfield and Joe Leeming were the first three Crimson runners to finish...
...Center Bill Weeks hauled down a Dudley aerial at midfield and raced 50 yards for Funster touchdown number two in the second period. Early in the third quarter, with the ball on his own 40, MacDonald faded back and tossed a 30-yard strike to Jim Graham, who rambled to pay dirt for the final Dunster score. This time MacDonald showed further versatlity by booting a place kick for the point after...