Word: ferd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson bruises leg," "Nadherny wrenches knee". . . this year, as ever, the stories come off the practice fields reeking of iodine and arnica. Two years ago they practically amputed Ferd's foot before he managed to escape from the pressrooms in time to smash Harvard into minute particles...
After that the bidding went on & on until Greece finally accepted canny Mahmout's price of $250.50 a mule. The Turk boarded a plane for Washington to collect his dollars. But he had underestimated the resourcefulness of U.S. mule skinners, such as Kansas City's Ferd Owen, biggest trader in the U.S. (TIME, July 14, 1947), and Texas' big dealer, Parker Jameson Horse & Mule...
...deal. It finally told Mahmout he could sell the mules, provided he bought them through established U.S. mule dealers. To make matters worse for him, EGA refused to pay his profit in dollars. He wotfld have to take that in Athens, in Greek drachmas. As for the mules, Ferd Owen got half the order (3,750) and Parker Jameson got the other half...
...beginning to wonder what he was doing in the deal. EGA estimated that he would still gross about 153,765 drachmas ($15.25) a mule, but Mahmout, who had been doing a lot of traveling, thought the profit figure would be pared sharply by his expenses. Missouri's Ferd Owen agreed. Said he: "It was a pretty close deal. I don't expect to make much on it, but I think the Turk will make even less...
...front are a healthy lot. Peter Manning-Smith, Lou Travis, and Bill Boucher will as usual make up the front line of the scrum, Ferd Schoch and Ed White the second, and John Carey, Joe Soriano, and Eddie Davis the outer shell...