Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanksgiving Every Day. Some 600 growers who met in Cleveland decided to spend $100,000 on a "research and education" campaign to wean Americans away from the idea that turkey can only be eaten roasted and on Thanksgiving. Latest idea: turkey steaks from oversize birds (up to 40 lbs.) that are hard to sell because they do not fit into kitchen ovens...
William L. Putnam '45 and David Michael, Jr. '48, returned to Tatla Lake in the northwest Canadian province to relate how Shiverick, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, had been caught with three companions in a slide on July 22 in the so-called Scimitar glacier, some 150 miles northwest of Vancouver...
Three weeks ago, there was only one Negro in the big leagues. Jackie Robinson did well, and soon there were two. Jackie led the league in stolen bases, helped Brooklyn's Dodgers into first place by batting .312. No. 2, the Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby, had not looked as good. In his first two weeks in the majors he had appeared mostly as a pinch-hitter, batted only...
...ball. He has it behind him and all of a sudden it's on the way." Said Joe DiMaggio: "This fellow hasn't been around too long. But he's a hell of a good pitcher. ... I didn't connect very solidly." Added Cleveland's Lou Boudreau, who as Feller's manager should know, "Blackwell equals anything we've got in our league. ... As good as Feller? Well, Feller's in our league, isn't he?" There was one difference between them. Veteran Feller, who has been on top for eleven...
...tractor of its own. Cut off by Ford, Harry Ferguson had managed to set up a manufacturing arrangement in England with Standard Motor Co. But in the U.S. he had no such luck. After shopping around, Roger Kyes, president of Ferguson, Inc., bought a surplus war plant in Cleveland and talked of floating $8,000,000 in stock and making Ferguson tractors...