Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to meet the $5000 cost of last year's Virginia trip, the band found itself forced to solicit money and to draw on its reserves from the previous year. The close of the 1947 season left the organization drained of virtually all its capital...
...subsequent defeat in the national election rendered him eligible for the regional office in time for Saturday afternoon's caucus. This factor set off an intricate chain of events so complicated as to make the machinations of Tammany Hall appear amateurish. The links of this chain in the order of their forging were...
...second string freshman football team, with several outside games, is also included in the intramural schedule, according to Samborski. In order to handle all those cut from the regular freshman football team, Samborski has so far arranged four outside contests. This two squad procedure has been tried over the past few seasons and is now an accepted part of University athletics...
Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...
...Army is planning to equip virtually all front-line vehicles, from tanks and prime movers to trucks and weapons carriers, with the new engine, and two truck companies are ready to order it as soon as it is in production. So Reese thinks it will be at least two years before the new Continental brings about any changes in passenger cars. In any case, Reese expects that it will be hot competition for General Motors' new high-compression motor shown this week, and that it will return Continental to the place in the auto engine industry that it once...