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Coach Floyd Wilson alternated two full teams in the first half, after which they led by only 35 to 27. But Wilson kept the starters in long enough in the third quarter to pile up a big lead, with Canty scoring from almost everywhere...
...became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station...
...Pacific, U.S. Air Force pilots do most of their flying from bases that Manhattan's Raymond Concrete Pile Co. had a hand in building. The company headed a combine that constructed $1.4 billion worth of U.S. naval and air bases at Guam, Wake, Midway and other Pacific islands in 1939-43. Thus, it was no surprise in the construction industry last week when the contract to build U.S. bases in Spain went to a combine that included Raymond. Other members of the winning team, picked from a 230-company list of bidders, were Manhattan's Walsh Construction...
Tunnels Under the Huds n. Raymond Concrete Pile Co. was built upon the tapered concrete pile that Founder Alfred A. Raymond invented in the 1890s to replace the wooden foundation pile. He had a hard time selling his idea, and some of those who invested savings in his tiny firm did so largely for friendship's sake. But by 1946, a share of stock purchased in 1902 for $2.50 was worth $888, including stock splits, and had already paid $992 in dividends...
...That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each man contributed special gifts: hard-driving Upson gave off engineering ideas like sparks from a busy grindstone. He pioneered in the development of prestressed concrete pile, i.e.., using steel wire under tension to make concrete much stronger. Shy, quiet-voiced McMenimen was first-rate at organizing, getting things done, dealing with labor. He was the troubleshooter who headed up the bases-building combine in the-Pacific. In 1952 he stepped into the U.S.'s bogged...