Word: fieldmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrying a welcoming committee of local bigwigs was ignobly stopped at the airport gates. Armed guards once warned Braniff employes that they would be arrested for trespassing if they attempted to enter the field to service their plane. At Vera Cruz, where a Braniff plane arrived after dark, C.M.A. fieldmen refused to switch on the landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences to enter the fields. C.M.A. parked trucks around...
Until recently, the farm project was confined to the South Pacific, where Ryerson and his 25 fieldmen also opened fisheries and started lumbering, by last spring were producing 250,000 board feet a day. But the program proved so satisfying that the Navy asked for the cultivation of 10,000 more acres in the Central Pacific as soon as the fighting moved on far enough. Eventually its chain of oversized victory gardens may reach all the way to Japan...
...weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record, he raised the meet mark...