Word: brier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rival Greenbrier. spotted Snead. For $45 a month, room & board, he lured Sam across the mountains to the Greenbrier. (With the exception of one year at Shawnee-on-Delaware and the 2½ wartime years he spent in the Navy, Sam has been headquartered at the Green-brier.) Says Martin, who has a native Scot's canny eye for a top golfer; "That swing of Sam's caused me to predict in 1936 that he would break 60 on a regulation 18-hole golf course." Breaking 60 in regulation golf is the rough equivalent of running the four...
Dwight Eisenhower had hardly taken office ten months ago when he faced the first test of his "trade not aid" policy. On his desk was a recommendation from the Tariff Commission that he boost the import duty on low-priced brier pipes. Eisenhower, wanting more time and information, sent the recommendation back to the commission for further study. Last week he turned down the proposal...
...true, said Ike, that the U.S. brier pipe industry is in a slump. Sales of pipes have dropped from 20.7 million in 1948 to 14 million, and employment and production are down. But the slump was not caused by foreign imports; they have increased by only 2,000,000. Said the President: "It seems apparent that the major part of this loss has been due to decline in consumer demand . . . In recent years, there has been a clear and sharp decrease in pipe-smoking in this country...
...Presented Democratic Senators Joseph O'Mahoney and Lester Hunt with something new in the way of White House mementos: brier pipes with bowls carved into likenesses of the presidential countenance-bifocals...
...minute candidate after the regular nominee died in mid-campaign. Even after he was safely ensconced in the state capitol in citified Denver, Thornton continued to wear the cowboy costume in which he successfully stumped the state. He often made photographers wait for pictures while he found an old brier pipe, which he never smokes but likes to wear clamped between his teeth...