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Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Meets Brown After Four Straight Defeats | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Here They Come! | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Former R.A.F. Warrant Officer Edward Blacksell, McIndoe's closest associate in running the Guinea Pig Club, says that TIME'S statement is "only wrong in a technical sort of way. Although they didn't actually call Mac 'God,' many of them thought of him as such, or certainly as the next best thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...complicated. In return for $60 million worth of Fontana steel, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (which plans an 1,840-mile natural-gas pipeline from Texas to New York) will help Kaiser finance a $17-million blast furnace to double Fontana's 1,200-ton daily capacity of pig iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...seat, Renishaw, were used as studies by Sir George. Piled upon their floors like snowdrifts were heaps of documents concerning his incredible projects and affairs. Boxes of papers were neatly labeled, though not often correctly: thus, the box inscribed "Osbert's Debts" might well contain instead papers on "Pig-Keeping in the 13th Century," or "The Use of the Bed," or "My Advice on Poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father Rides Again | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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