Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Class of 1940: Charles H. Coombs Jr., Brockton; Edward M. Davis Jr., Winter Park, Fla.; Edward A. C. Dubois, Somerville; Richard S. Fogelman, Pompton Lakes, N. J.; Louis Hartz, Omaha, Nebr.; Thomas V. Healey, Worcester...
Builder is Andrew Jackson Higgins, a 55-year-old Irishman, born in Omaha. An old Mississippi River racer, Higgins went after the record of the legendary river steamer Robert E. Lee for the 1,200-mile upriver run from New Orleans to St. Louis. In 1929 he broke it in his spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon...
with the job done by 15 temporary electrical equipment salesmen, hired for 90 days, that last fortnight it bought a quarter-page advertisement in the Omaha World-Herald ("Wanted-Jobs for 15 Good Salesmen"), followed up with paid announcements on three local radio stations. This unusual solicitude had unusual results: last week ten of the good salesmen had permanent jobs, five were still scratching their heads over four to five offers each. Nebraska Power's bread cast on the waters floated home in yeasty loaves of publicity, community good will...