Word: grubb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been fired from two previous jobs and had not performed open-chest surgery in nearly six years before entering the Navy in 1982. He was found guilty on two counts of involuntary manslaughter, and on a lesser charge of negligent homicide in the case of retired Major William Frank Grubb, who died in 1984 after Billig performed bypass surgery on him. In addition, he was found guilty on 18 counts of dereliction of duty. Throughout his seven- week trial, the jury, which included three medical doctors and a nurse, took meticulous notes. Said one officer who sat through...
Rather than put out just any cereal, Grubb decided to appeal to state pride. "The Huskers are almost a religion out here," he said...
...University of Nebraska proved very receptive to Grubb's idea. "We gave him the right to use the Cornhusker name in exchange for 6 percent of the profits," said Greg Fouraker, business manager for the University of Nebraska...
...Grubb then approached 25 former Nebraska All-American athletes and got permission to feature their faces on trading cards inside the cereal boxes. "Most of them were really flattered. They were pleased that we wanted to put them in cereal boxes," Grubb said...
...bright yellow boxes of Husker cereal contain star-shaped puffs made of--you guessed it--corn. Grubb's company now puts out 2000 boxes of cereal daily and hopes to increase production soon...