Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Record breaking is nothing new for the sandy-haired native of Manly, Australia. Hawkins is the youngest swimmer to win a breaststroke event in the British Empire Games; he placed a creditable tenth in the 200-meter breaststroke in the 1952 Olympics, breaking the 1948 record with a time of 2:39.8. In between these victories, he managed to break every Australian breaststroke mark...
Martin returned to Texas and organized a corporate beachhead from which to make raids as daring as Villa's. He got control of Brooklyn's Safe-T-Stat Corp. makers of radiator thermometers, later absorbed competitors (Moto Meter Co. Nagel Electric, National Gauge) into Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp...
...also in bad repute because of a bitter strike in which trigger-happy Ohio national guardsmen shot and killed two strikers and wounded five others. Martin was able to talk Auto-Lite's founder, the late Clem Mininger, into a 2½-for-one swap of Moto Meter's stock for Auto-Lite's, and soon after Martin became president. In 18 years he has boosted Auto-Lite's sales from $14 million to $271 million, and profits from $1.2 million to 1952's net of $9.8 million...
...meter dive gives the Crimson its best chance for a first. Here, two of the East's best-Kenny Welch and the Crimson's Pete Dillingham--will be competing. Welch has defeated everyone this season except Navy's Owen Davies; Dillingham has defeated everyone, including Davies...
...yard breaststroke, Ralph Zani and Emerson would up one-two ahead of Columbia ace Al Sacknoff. Pete Dfllingham scored a good 93.5 points to win the one-meter dive...