Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. Not a wholesome trot tin' race. No! But a race where they set down right on the horse! Like to see some stuck-up Jockey-boy settin' on Dan Patch? . . . Trouble-oh, we've got Trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool...
...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
...that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations, as boss in 1945. In short order Aerojet was making good on its contracts, at one point hit production of 25,000 JATO units monthly. By V-J day it had 1,700 people on its payroll...
...Histadrut is a trade union whose membership (plus families) includes more than half of all Israelis. But it is much more. Together with the government, it owns and operates at least 60% of the nation's business. It invests in iron foundries, textile mills and shipyards, factories from Dan to Beersheba. When the army's victories made Israel safe beyond these scriptural bounds, Histadrut reopened King Solomon's (copper) mines and built a luxury hotel to attract tourists to Elath. Denounced as monopolistic (its grandiose Tel Aviv headquarters is known as the Kremlin), Histadrut has lately agreed...
Goriaev and fellow traveling cartoonist Ivan Semeonov, who is also Krokodil's art editor, are in the U.S. for three weeks, invited by Dan Bowling, cartoonist for the Republican New York Herald Tribune and president of the U.S. cartoonists. The Russians' deft drawings of the U.S. are being carried by the HT, will appear in a LIFE article next week. The tourists attended the association's convention in Indianapolis last week, will also meet Walt Disney in Los Angeles...