Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concord the squash team whitewashed St. Paul's 5 to 0 with Ham Graven at number four the only member of the team extended beyond three games...
Realizing that as Arkansas went, so went his power company, Ham Moses organized the economic council, a private organization, and got the state to set up a similar body. The two groups started helping communities help themselves, conducted "foreign" capitalists on tours of the state to show its progress. Nondrinking, nonsmoking Ham Moses became a modern-day Arkansas traveler, ran some of the tours himself in his chauffeur-driven Chrysler, which has a built-in ice box always stocked with Coca-Cola...
Cattle & Metals. Whenever a town wanted to convert such a thing as a surplus military airport into an industrial site, or reorganize its chamber of commerce, or put up a building for a Northern industry, Ham Moses was there with the know-how-and often some Arkansas Power & Light funds. By such tactics, Arkansas snagged $854 million in new plants since World War II, including light metals, petrochemicals, and a growing timber and cattle business...
...side, Ham Moses also battled public power to a standstill in Arkansas. In one skirmish, when Jackson County was to vote on establishment of a countywide power cooperative, Moses mobilized a force of 50 A.P.L. salesmen, gave them a two-day course in the company's side of the argument, and sent them to spread the gospel among cotton pickers and housewives. Moses himself did two-hour daily stints on the radio. A.P.L. won the fight by better than four...
...installing 2½ times more capacity than it owned in 1946. But Moses thinks there is still plenty of work to be done; for all the progress, Arkansas lost 2% in population from 1940 to 1950, still has 1,250,000 acres of idle farm land. Says Ham Moses: "We've got to out-plan, out-think and outwork all the other states if we are to maintain the pace of industrial growth we've set in the past decade...