Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Cal Lowenstein on the bench with a bad shoulder, Jordan will rely on his single wing almost exclusively. He has a T formation team with Joe Conzelman at quarterback ready, but a Crimson win must of necessity be fashioned from the single wing running...
...three months since he left his Chicago textile company to take on the world's biggest housekeeping job, General Cervices Administrator Edmund F. Mansure, 52, has found so many ways to save the Government money that he is becoming almost as legendary an economizer as was parsimonious Cal Coolidge. Mansure is so meticulous that when eating beef hash, he separates the meat from the potatoes. Unlike most bureaucrats who throw away paper clips, Mansure keeps his until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with...
...popular as he was inept, won nine terms in office. Poor, plain Sam Adams tried and failed to turn the Commonwealth into a "Christian Sparta." The election of David I. Walsh marked the rising tide of immigration: he was the first Irish Catholic to win the governorship. Persimmon-faced Cal Coolidge reversed the trend, turned back to Yankee conservatism. In three terms, Leverett Saltonstall, the present senior Senator from Massachusetts, reduced the public debt from the highest in Commonwealth history to the lowest since...
...most sensational growth has been in low-calorie soft drinks; sales rose from zero to 5,000,000 cases in one year. Pioneer in the field was Kirsch's Beverages, Inc. of Brooklyn, which started producing No-Cal ginger ale last year, aiming at an annual market of 100,000 cases; instead, Kirsch's sold half a million, added four other flavors, and this year expects No-Cal sales to top 2,500,000 cases. More than 50 companies are now in the field...
...four Sabres screamed into a dive. Flight Leader Major Vermont Garrison, 37-year-old World War II ace who is known as "the greying eagle," leveled out at 2,000 ft. on the tail of a MIG. After a quick burst from the Sabre's .50-cal. machine guns, the Red plane exploded. A few minutes later, Garrison downed another MIG. Captain Lonnie Moore, 32, drew a bead on a third MIG and brought it down; ist Lieut. Harry Jones Jr., 23, got another. Then at 1,500 ft., Wingman William F. Schrimsher, 24, a 2nd lieutenant from Alabama...