Word: jess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Dan Brouthers (.348), Ed Delahanty (.346), Willie Keeler (.345), Tris Speaker (.344). Babe Ruth and Jess Burkett also...
Just as some U.S. manufacturers were about to pump up the price of tires by 5% last week, the General Services Administration punctured the air hose by announcing a 14?-a-lb. cut in the price of natural rubber. GSA Administrator Jess Larson wants the tiremakers to pass along their savings, $40 million in the next three months, to consumers. At 52? a lb., rubber is now 47% cheaper than last December, when GSA clamped the lid on skyrocketing rubber prices by taking over the buying of all natural rubber...
...Jess Larson, the Government's top housekeeper (title: General Services Administrator), rolled up to Capitol Hill in an old car to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. His most startling statistic: the 46 executive departments of the U.S. Government (not including Defense) operate 19,888 passenger cars, hire 1,380 full-time and 5,672 part-time chauffeurs. Commented Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson (who owns his own Pontiac, no chauffeur): "All the Senators are getting embarrassed by the number of large chauffeur-driven cars that pass them on the street...
...Making Chapman the seventh golfer to win both the U.S. and British amateur titles. The others: Harold Hilton, Walter Travis, Jess Sweetser, Bobby Jones, Lawson Little and Willie Turnesa...
Crew started even long before Jess. Founder Henry Durant felt it was "Attractive and beneficial to the girls' health." But the first crews' chief function, other than mastering the elementary principles of rowing, lay in entertaining distinguished visitors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once took a spin on Lake Waban; it is said he never came back to Wellesley...