Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better than getting people to vote. Most students will vote for the man upstairs, or the eager characters across the hall. That is fine--at least they know their classmates. Too many do not, and so do not vote at all. They could talk to a few candidates and pick a favorite. It wouldn't hurt...
...Ilyushin job, first seen by Western observers in August 1947, is a four-jet bomber with a probable range of 1,000 to 1,500 miles and bomb load of 5,000 Ibs. Some experts believe that the plane is too light to pick up Russia's Abomb, but another four-jet bomber, the German-designed JU-287 (bomb load nearly 9,000 Ibs.) is said by Jane's to be in "limited production" at Kuibyshev...
...mother, the only daughter of Chicago's fabulously rich Marshall Field I, had left him a cool $1,000,000. Peter's youth was divided between the playing fields of Eton and happy vacations in the Swiss Alps. As a young man he had his pick of Mayfair's debutantes for company, and plenty of time and money to hunt and shoot and race...
Beginning next week, the U.N. General Assembly goes on television with a commercial sponsor: the Ford Motor Co. While the session lasts (probably more than a month), Ford will pick up the tab for 15 hours a week (CBS-TV, 11 a.m.1 p.m., 3-4 p.m. Mon. through Fri.) over a network of 21 stations-the largest time sale in TV history...
Senior tickets for the Yale game go on sale this morning. Frank O. Lunden of the H.A.A. announced last night that there will be no change in the usual method of ticket-purchasing. Men may pick up as many tickets for other students as they want...