Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hole...
While other nations have given in to self-pity and threats to go all-out for Communism, the Japanese are proving that hard work and plain guts are the only methods which will enable a beaten nation to revive itself. Japan may be America's "ace in the hole" in a future war. General MacArthur knows it, but does Congress...
...year-old Underdog Johnny Dawson. He had been politely invited not to play in the same tourney 18 years ago because he worked for a sporting-goods firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point who says he lives in Monterey Park, Calif, but actually lives out of a suitcase...
...There was a new clue to a mystery that has puzzled ulcer specialists-why do four times as many men as women have ulcers? Examining the stomach of a 21-year-old Negro girl through a surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse...
...Loon production last week had expanded to 400,000 tubes daily. The company was already grossing $100,000 a day. As the Vinylite plastic (purchased in bulk from Bakelite Corp.) cost only 14? per 49? tube, a large part of the gross was profit. There was only one hole in the bubble. The formula for turning vinyl plastic into Bub-O-Loon was so simple that Fox did not think it could be patented. Already competitors were turning out more than 100,000 tubes a day. When the Bub-O-Loon finally bursts, Matty Fox hopes to be ready with...