Word: newcomb
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Bovine Dentures. False teeth for cows have been developed by Colorado Rancher Rood Menter and Nebraska Dentist Ward Newcomb. Cows often wear out their front teeth by chewing abrasive materials along with grass, thus shortening their lives. The false teeth, consisting of stainless steel caps, were designed to prolong the breeding lives of valuable cows, paying off in extra calves. Cost: about...
WILBURN W. NEWCOMB Bloomington...
...Abandon Ship! Newcomb...
...Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass. With her SOS unheard, Indy would not have been missed until she became overdue at Leyte two days later. There the fact that she was overdue was overlooked for more than a day. It was not immediately reported because a loophole-riddled directive saying "Arrival reports shall not be made for combatant ships" was construed to mean that non-arrivals were not to be reported either...
...Navy also issued letters of reprimand to four land-based officers responsible for the control and reporting of ship movements-without ever letting them know that there were any charges against them. The reprimands got wide publicity. Only now, after twelve years, does Reporter Newcomb disclose that the reprimands were quietly withdrawn within a few months. Newcomb's conclusion: in the Indianapolis tragedy the Navy was its own worst enemy...