Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Compton Cup, now in the halls of Nassau, is the prize Harvard, Princeton, M.I.T., and Rutgers will be seeking in the 18th renewal of a regatta dating from 1933. The Cup, given by Dr. Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., has been won six times by Princeton, eleven by Harvard...
...brand-new soft-drink plant at Compton, Calif., a stocky, 68-year-old engineer slopped around in spilled root-beer syrup, adjusting, testing and breaking in $450,000 worth of canning machinery. Allan Baldwin Rogers was at his favorite job: getting a new Can-a-Pop plant into production...
...Cochrane Corp. (TIME, April 27, 1953). Whether first or not, Rogers and his sales-minded son Robert, 32, in less than a year have converted a failing brewery (inherited by Allan's wife) into a company turning out 44,600 cases of pop a day from plants in Compton, Peoria, Ill. and Sheridan, Wyo. To meet the demand, the Rogerses are still expanding, with franchised plants planned for Hutchinson, Kans., Florida (near Tampa), Minneapolis, Dallas and Philadelphia, and two new flavors, cola and lemon-lime, coming out this summer...
...Missouri's Republican State Chairman Perry Compton took a sharper view of the idea of McCarthy campaigning in his state. "Joe is a disturbing factor, even though I believe he has done a lot of good," observed Compton. "Now he is fighting with the Army, which certainly has fought Communism . . . He is all wet in opposing the Administration program." ¶ In Connecticut, anti-McCarthy resolutions were overwhelmingly adopted by all five of the Republican town caucuses (Avon, Salisbury, Sharon, Norfolk and Canaan) which voted on them. The effort was spearheaded by Insurance Company Executive John D. Alsop...
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