Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomores Jim Welch and Morgy Hatch played most of the game as replacements for Minot and DiBlasio as Coach Chase sought desperately for a scoring combination. Trainer Eddie Noonan expects to have Huntington and DiBlasio ready for tomorrow's game with Princeton, but Minot's knee is still swollen...
...intercom: "Abandon ship." Then he cut in the automatic pilot. In the radio compartment just abaft the pilots' seats, Staff Sergeant Vitale Trippodi tied down his radio key to keep a signal on the air as long as the aircraft was 'aloft, and dove for the escape hatch. Within seconds, all 17 aboard had leaped into a 55-mile gale, drifted down into the wilderness of Princess Royal Island, off the coast of British Columbia, 450 miles northwest of Seattle. It was a few minutes before midnight...
...ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late 1948 had acquired enough (35%) to get control of the company. Odium moved in as chairman, brought along two of his chief Atlas deputies-L. Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnson-as directors early last year. They ran the company so well that in 1949, when the rest of the industry slipped a little from its 1948 high, Barnsdall upped its profits 4% to $14.8 million. Says Odium proudly: "It was probably the only [oil] corporation whose earnings in 1949 were...
...deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State is one of the few places left in the world where millionaires hatch seasonally, like May flies...
...when the first men from the engine room hatch were coming to the surface, the Admiralty got the word. Destroyers, frigates, tugs, tenders and salvage ships hurried to the scene. One Lancaster bomber, carrying divers to the wreck, crashed; five men died, indirectly adding to the toll...