Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
...known what to do with Basic Magnesium, the world's biggest magnesium plant. Built in 1941 in the desert in Nevada between Boulder City and Las Vegas, Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
...State of Nevada, which had a big stake in Basic's future (Henderson is Nevada's third biggest town), thought the elephant could be put to work. So last week, for the sum of $1 down and the promise of $24 million over a 20-year period, Nevada bought Basic from...
...Make Statements. He called a White House meeting, summoning Secretary Marshall; Loy Henderson, the State Department's Middle East expert; and David K. Niles, the President's special adviser on Palestine. But the meeting exploded into violent argument. Niles is pro-partition. Henderson is anti-partition. Mr. Truman broke it up by walking out, bitterly declaiming: "This gets us nowhere. All I want is a statement I can read tomorrow at my press conference...
Gerry Genn, who led the team with a seventh place, negotiated the 37 gate, three-quarter mile course in 179.9 seconds, fifteen seconds behind leader Don Henderson of Middlebury. Rod Nordblom captured nineteenth place with...