Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALUMINUM Thumbs Down for Harvey Everything seemed all set for Lea M. Harvey, an obscure Los Angeles aluminum fabricator, to become the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer-thanks to a $46 million Government loan (TIME, Sept. 10). But last week something went wrong. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman notified the RFC and DPA that he was withdrawing his approval of Harvey's loan, which was enough to shelve it temporarily. His official reason: the grave power shortage in the Northwest, where Harvey planned to build...
Behind Gagliardi lay Defending Champion Sam Urzetta, 1949 Champion Charley Coe, and National Junior Champ Tommy Jacobs, at 16 the youngest golfer ever to reach the men's semifinals. Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan and 1951 British Amateur Titleholder Dick Chapman had already fallen in earlier rounds. Young Billy Maxwell blasted his way into the last round by knocking off 250-lb. Pittsburgh Realtor Jack Benson...
Through it all. Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman stayed mum. Sniffing skulduggery, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman E. E. Willis fired off a letter to Chapman, sarcastically pointing out that homestead scrip was never intended to help start a farm "at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico." Willis demanded to know why Chapman, who usually acts on mineral lease applications in a matter of days, has let months pass without denying Cord's claims. By last week Chapman had still taken no action, but Interior officials said privately that Cord's claims will be tossed out. Another possible...
...Sciences; Leonard Jay Friedman, Chemistry; Charles Frederick Gallagher, Far Eastern Languages; De Witt Stettin Goodman, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Woodward Hulbert, History; Jules Alfred Kernen, Chemistry (1950); Howard Joseph Laster, Physics; Paul Cocil Martin, Physics (1952); Robert Kenyon Nesbet, Physics; Anthony Gervin Oettinger, Engineering Sciences; David Dodd Perkins, English; John Chapman Pittenger, History; Archibald Campbell Spencer, English; Donald Theodore Trautman, Economics; and Ariel Charle Zomach, Physics...
...Making Chapman the seventh golfer to win both the U.S. and British amateur titles. The others: Harold Hilton, Walter Travis, Jess Sweetser, Bobby Jones, Lawson Little and Willie Turnesa...