Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown Giant. The man who benefited most from the fast rise is an up-from-the-sidewalks Canadian financier and promoter, Louis Arthur Chesler, 46, chairman and prime mover of both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...
...exhibition is the result of a cultural exchange agreement under which the Soviet Union plans to set up its own exhibit in Manhattan's Coliseum for eight weeks beginning June 16. The Russians will pack their show with manufactured products, model classrooms, scientific instruments (including Sputnik models), giant topographical maps, displays of collective farms, literature and Soviet sports. Some 50 English-speaking young Russians will act as guides...
...North, 45, rolled out of bed to get at his chores. After a hearty breakfast (orange juice, cereal, bacon and eggs), he left his twelve-room white frame and fieldstone house, walked briskly to the barnyard. In the early morning mist the low-lying white barn, surmounted by five giant blue-black silos, rode the frozen prairie like an ocean liner. Like a rumble of surf came the hungry bellowing of 400 white-faced Herefords and the grunting of 500 Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped...
...varsity went back ahead as Bob Bowditch, 6 ft., 1 in., out-leaped Eli giant Gerry Glynn (6 ft., 10 in.) to deftly tip in a rebound, but the visitors again knotted the count. For the remainder of the half, both teams traded baskets, with Donohue feeding Harrington for three lovely set shots. On the strength of four last-minute points by Dan McFadden, however, the Bulldogs gained a 41-39 halftime advantage...
...sunspots, thought by Menzel to be "islands of intense calm floating in the otherwise turbulent sea of the Sun's atmosphere." Accordingly, the staff at Sacramento Peak had been watching a large cluster of sunspots covering over three billion square miles of the Sun's surface. Before the giant flare was seen, seven smaller flares had been observed, like rumblings before a storm. When a flare breaks out it spews a large number of electrically charged particles out into space; the bombardment of the Earth's atmosphere by these particles is thought to be the cause of aurorae, magnetic disturbances...