Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the midget car, this week introduced his new line of 1948 automobiles. Among them was the cheapest postwar model he has yet produced: a two-passenger multi-purpose sports and general utility car. The price: $799 f.o.b. Marion, Ind. It brought Crosley closer to his ambition of producing virtually the same car for $500 if prices of raw materials and other costs go down...
Cornell handed the Bulldog Jrs. their only loss of the autumn in the first game of the season by a 13 to 6 score, but since then nobody has gotten closer than eight points to them. And Columbia, which is generally compared to the Phillies in Jayvee circles, fell by the wayside 59 to 0, and the Yalies continued on, blasting Connecticut and Rutgers...
...Will Pass . . ." If there was no essential agreement on Germany at Lancaster House, the Russians and everyone else knew what would follow. The U.S., British and French zones would draw closer together in an economic union. There might be no "separate peace" in the formal sense; occupation troops would remain. Western Germans would, however, get more chance to run their own affairs and to contribute to Europe's reconstruction...
...tugboat radar, specially designed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. for close-range work, shows objects 80 yards away, large objects even closer. It can "see" for 30 miles, but tugboats are seldom concerned with such distances. It costs about $12,000, may save much more on the barges that shuttle freight cars between New Jersey and the docks of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The New Haven and the Pennsylvania figure that radars on their 51 tugs may save $50-100,000 every foggy...
...Southern California, which hadn't beaten Washington on Washington's home ground in 15 years, went to Seattle and whipped the jinx by a 19-to-0 score, thereby moving one notch closer to the Rose Bowl...