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Practice sessions opened Monday, but Shepard has time until October 10, the date of the jayvees first contest, to pare down the squad and shape it into a coordinated unit...
...modern equipment. His 1,000 trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand-Man Walter Scott; unlike many others he did not pare down to skeleton size between jobs. Result: he got many new ones because he was the only man fully equipped to take them on. He helped build highways in California and Kansas and the big dams through the Missouri Valley. His firm's working capital grew to more than...
...were either shifted or discharged. Only two of the office staff were left: Dave Sentner, who now will boss the bureau, and Bill Flythe. Newsmen wondered whether the shake-up might mean a change in Hearst policies. A likelier reason was that the ailing Hearst empire was starting to pare costs...
Remember too your nails to pare...
Both Harvard teams played sluggish first-half ball due in part to a long bus trip and lack of any pre-game rest. The varsity and Yardling tens outplayed the Ephmen in the second halves, but were unable to pare first half defiles of 9 to 0 and 7 to 4, respectively...