Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tentative starting eleven, Lamar, yesterday chose Tom Haymond and Frank Bolt at the end posts; Steve Mallett and George Hibbard at the tackles; Wally Mroz and Gibby King at the guards; Ed Donovan at center; and a backfield composed of Dick Warren, Swede Anderson, Joe Lauterbach, and Paul Garrity...
...Strenuous Life. In Wilbur, Wash., the spinning rod of a reaper caught Rancher Walter Wynhoff by the overalls, gave him a spin, tossed him aside wearing only his shoes and eyeglasses. In an Army maneuver area in Tennessee, a bolt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag, welded it all the way around, sealed up a soldier inside, uninjured...
Last week Boeing made good news and bad news: 1) production of B-17s is "far behind schedule" because Boeing cannot get some 9,000 crucially needed workers; 2) after two years' dickering, Phil Johnson bought, for $7,700,000, every last brick and bolt of Plant...
...Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
...commissioned, only a handful of Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...