Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also leaps through a revolving, flaming ring. There is fairy-tale comedy by a family of three Penguins, and the pratt-fall school of wit is upheld by numerous masters of the padded backside. Just when it seems impossible that skating can be any funnier, the Swiss team of Frick & Frack appears and remains in graceful motion while drooping backwards so far that their heads nearly sweep the rink...
Rounding out the eleven, was Ray Frick, Penn's all-American candidate, who came through in the last part of the poll to gain the nod over Ed Ingalls of Michigan...
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...York Shipbuilding Corp., smallest of the Big 3(5 ways), has had the most turbulent career. Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick and their old steelmaster friends built it in 1899 on the banks of the deep. sheltered Delaware River ("America's Clyde"), on tidewater 90 miles from the sea. Mellon sold it in 1916 for $11,500,000 to American International Corp., and its troubles began. From 1925 on it was bought & sold first by brilliant, eccentric Laurence Russell Wilder, a promoter, who dropped its name and combined it with his electric equipment manufacturing firm of American Brown Boveri...
Census takers in Pittsburgh revealed that they had not completely succeeded in cataloguing Helen Clay Frick, 49, spinster daughter of the late Steel and Coke Tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Said she: "I am a Republican and a good American citizen. I don't object to the census. I answered every question except those which were not proper. They asked the value of my Pittsburgh home. That is a personal question. . . . They asked my education. That is a personal matter, it is none of their business...