Word: piedmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aragon-Baldwin Mills, Duncan Mills, M. T. Stevens & Sons Co., Slater-Carter-Stevens, Inc., Victor-Monagha'n Co., Watts Mills, Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Republic Cotton Mills, Wallace Manufacturing...
...Ousted Umberto II, who joined his family five days later., took for his exile the title of Count of Sarre after an ancient castle of the Savoys in Piedmont...
...Chapman is a man with plenty of bounce; he is also too lucky and too versatile to be kept down for long. After twelve stormy years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a big-league manager...
What he lacks in experience (one season in the Piedmont League, two Army years with the Randolph Field team) is heavily outweighed by 23-year-old Dave Ferriss' superabundant self-confidence. The batters say he has a deceptive motion, almost uncanny control, a natural sinker, a sidearmed curve that is murder for right-handed batsmen. Almost alone, ambidextrous Ferriss boosted the slow-starting Red Sox from last to third place...
...Francisco attorney, Chickering had traveled in Europe and Asia, had gone to Hotchkiss and Yale. In 1938 he had married Audrey Madden. When the news of her husband's death came, she was living in Piedmont, Calif., with their four-year-old son. Last week she said: "He had to go back to the Pacific. He had seen it start there and it was logical...