Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approaching within one million miles of the earth, a comet or minor planet traveling at the rate of 20 miles per second threatened a five-year-old record, the Harvard Observatory announced last night...
Today the Cardinals control 27 minor-league clubs-Columbus, Rochester, Sacramento, Houston and New Orleans are their five big proving grounds-and the once-despised farm system is now used by all other big-time teams...
Naturally, there were no funds to purchase stars from other teams, so Rickey dreamed up the farm system, i.e., buying minor-league clubs and developing young players on them. At first the other big-league teams hooted at "Rickey's chain gang," but by 1926 it began to pay off spectacularly. That year the Cards won not only the pennant but the World Series...
...reply: nobody-from Standard Oil to Jesse Jones-wanted to exploit synthetic rubber at 20? to 40? a lb. (except for minor specialty products), as long as natural rubber was available at about 15? a lb. A plant to make synthetic rubber costs $1,000 per ton of annual capacity; no private company could risk that kind of money while natural rubber was plentiful. Beginning in 1939, Standard Oil tried to get the Government to finance plants; it went to the Army and Navy Munitions Board, National Defense Advisory Committee, the Senate Military Affairs Committee and Banker Jesse Jones...
Tripoli's story is the old one about the ex-Marine (Minor Watson) who dumps his playboy son (John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...