Word: bulldogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
...armed forces, Comet's 50-man production line is ringed with the same security as many another defense plant. In an emergency, Comet's diemakers have turned out models of a weapon in 72 hours, from drawing board to finished product. At the time the first Walker Bulldog tanks rolled off the Cadillac production line, Comet was working on a whole fleet. Since the Korean war began, business has boomed again...
...Britain and Canada began standardizing their arms, a move that would simplify production and supply, save vast amounts of money. The three armies adopted the new 28-ton "Walker Bulldog" as their light tank, agreed on 400 other items, including 8-in., 75-mm. and 240-mm. howitzers, fuel, lubricants, electric voltage systems.* ¶The U.S. reassured its NATO allies about raw material shortages (other NATO members have long been worried about heavy U.S. stockpiling). Most serious of the shortages-tungsten, molybdenum, cotton, sulphur-brought Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Richard Rapier Stokes, to Washington last week. U.S. officials...
Each five-page pamphlet, printed in Bulldog blue, is accompanied by a letter signed "I am a Yale man and your very sincere friend, Granville Gates...
...Crimson, on the other hand, took quick advantage of the first Yale penalty: defenseman John White advanced the disk to the Eli blue line, and laced a 70-foot drive into the Bulldog net at 10:40, while Frank Kittredge of Yale was in the penalty box for high sticking...