Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good salesman carries a special slide rule (called "profit meter") with which he can figure in a trice the dealer's profit on any given number of Coca-Cola bottles, personally puts up Coke advertising ("don't leave your sign for the dealer to put up-he might give it away to one of his friends"), keeps his truck in perfect order and drives carefully. Curves must be taken smoothly so that Coke cases won't slide off; pedestrians must not be frightened, much less injured-they are all potential Coke customers...
...years and six races the M.I.T. crew has been tailing the Crimson and invariably the pursued made it over the finish line just a step ahead. Saturday the Tech boat out-sprinted Harvard by one tenth of a second and four feet to win the 2000 meter Eastern rowing championship on the Severn at Annapolis...
Past performances and highly gratifying work in practice this week make the varsity crew a pretty clear favorite in the 2000 meter Eastern Sprint Championship race Saturday at Annapolis...
...lead to a stride. For N.Y.U. that left matters up to Anchor Man Reggie Pearman, who had never been beaten in three years of running in the Penn Relays. He jetted off after Morgan State's anchor man, tall, long-legged Jamaican George Rhoden, 400-meter champion of the A.A.U. But Pearman was never able to close that stride, and little Morgan State (enrollment 1,500) finally had a big-time winner. The time: 3:13.6, more than a full second faster than the Penn Relay record...
Jack of All Trades. Jones, born on a farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff...