Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickup. A lawnmower-like magnetic "sweeper" to pick up metal scraps from factory floors has been developed by Homer Mfg. Co. of Lima, Ohio. Prices: from $124 to $856, depending on width and intensity of magnets...
...Bill Linglebach will be lest to the Crimson for at least a week and Mauriclo Toro, center forward, is a doubtful starter. Linglebach suffered a relapse of virus pneumonia, while Toro, whom Coach Bruce Munro considers his key playmaker, suffered a muscle injury to his left leg in a pick-up scrimmage with the Business School on Wednesday. In addition, many of the team members, including center half Stacy Homes, who did not dress for practice yester, are suffering from colds...
Anyone can pick the stories he likes best, and usually does. And the good part about it is that nobody ever gets too excited about someone, else's opinion of Benchley; that is how he wrote, and that is why a hundred years from now people will still be saying, "Good old Benchley, they don't write like him these days...
...pick up one of these magazines is to be at once delighted and confounded-delighted by the skill of the writing and confounded by the fact that we have nothing to equal them in this country...
...president, the American Trucking Associations likes to pick a trucker whose business is a model in the trade. Last year it picked a trucker who seemed to fit all the qualifications: Birmingham's John B. Cole Jr., 44. A onetime freight-commission salesman, Jack Cole bought his first truck 20 years ago, built up a fleet of 195 diesel tractors and 285 trailers, a staff of 400 drivers, mechanics and clerks, and a ten-city chain of terminals. But last week Cole's business was anything but a model. In a pay dispute with his drivers...