Word: garrard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup, but costs much more ($1,495 and $2,500) than the Fisher...
...lobby braves were led by William Garrard, of Greenwood, Miss., general manager of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...
Among the players recently selected by the nation's sports writers for berths on All-America were seven of Harvard's opponents during the season: Garrard Ramsay of William and Mary, Bob Margarita of Brown, Spencer Moseley of Yale, Jim Kellcher of Army, and Tom Kuzma, Al Wistert, and Julius Franks of Michigan...
...Indian team to watch are fullback Harvey "Stud" Johnson and left guard Garrard Ramsey. A 210 pound lad from Bridgeton, New Jersey, Johnson provided the winning margin against Dartmouth last year when he kicked a 27 yard field goal and did the same thing this year with a 22 yard goal against Navy. In addition to his outstanding ability as a place kicker, "Stud" is also a powerful ball carrier and a great defensive player...
...Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...