Word: leeper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellis Albaugh shares not in this profit. He sold out for $600 cash. The promoters who bought it sold stock in the Dixie Cotton Chopper Co., then absconded with the money. One of the salesmen of this first company was a Kentuckian named Lawrence W. Leeper whose wife had an independent fortune. In 1927 Lawrence Leeper bought the rights to the chopper, patented it in 1932. Engineer Dent Parrett improved the machine and wealthy oldtime Rancher John Scharbauer and friends put up $200.000 to establish Dixie Cultivator Corp. in 1936. Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given...
...fight Penn every inch of the way through a helter-skelter game in which players stumbled with the ball, fumbled at critical moments, crashed into each other. In the last minutes of play Navy intercepted a Penn pass for a second touchdown, null Northwestern's Halfback Leeper showed bad judgment when he picked up an Ohio State punt instead of letting it roll across his own goal line. He was tackled hard. He fumbled. Ohio State's Quarterback Pincura fell on the ball for a touchdown. In the next period a Northwestern pass from centre bounced...