Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Navy's Tim Peard was the fourth double winner of the tournament, adding an 18:12.9 victory in the 1650-yard freestyle to his 400-yard, individual medley win Thursday night. Villanova's Richard Girdler upset Army's Tony Clay to win the 100-yard freestyle...
Died. Tom Mercer Girdler, 87, chairman of Republic Steel Corp. from 1937 to 1956, a tough-talking engineer who took over a faltering company, gradually built it into the industry's third biggest producer (after U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel), but is best remembered for his tooth-and-nail opposition to unions, a fight that resulted in the bloody 1937 South Chicago strike (ten killed, hundreds injured) and eventually idled nearly a million workers in seven states for six weeks; of a heart attack; in Easton...