Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Test. Brown has tremendous power, is also the fastest man on the team. The combination is devastating. Most fullbacks are short-yardage power specialists, but Jimmy has roared off on touchdown gallops of 23, 38, 41. 48, 59 and 62 yards this season. He explodes from a standing start at top speed, follows his interference to the line of scrimmage, then picks a hole and takes off, running over everything...
COMBINATION refrigerator-freezer. Regularly $449.50. Now only $349.95." Such price-cutting ads, often phony, are among the fastest spreading evils of U.S. merchandising. Once only fly-by-nighters in dingy back streets offered fake bargains. Today, in trying to keep up with the discount houses, even old established merchants resort to price trickery. The problem is so bad that the Federal Trade Commission last month came out with a nine-point "Guides Against Deceptive Pricing," aimed at getting merchants and manufacturers to cooperate to force more honesty back into price advertising. Unless something is done, FTC Chairman John Gwynne told...
...fastest, roughest, and most exciting soccer games ever played at Harvard, Pennsylvania and the Crimson battled to a 2-2 standoff last Saturday. The tie kept the varsity in first place in the Ivy League with a 2-0-1 record...
Time of the Giants. Along the receding frontiers, the war and postwar years were a time of giant strides and the expenditure of staggering sums for new aluminum plants, paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling...
...other May stores, into Hecht's Baltimore operation. Hecht stores, which will continue to use the Hecht name, will hitch their future to the bright May star, getting the advantage of May's huge national purchasing and merchandising facilities and its solid footing in some of the fastest growing U.S. population areas, e.g., Los Angeles and Denver. If stockholders approve-and they are expected to-May Co. will swap 9¼ shares of its common stock for each ten shares of Hecht. Hecht Chairman Samuel M. Hecht will become a member of the new May board, and Levi...