Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting stop the rather alarming pile of red tape connected with the handing over of a piece of government property to a private concern is a small, graying man named Fletcher W. Taft. Mr. Taft graduated from Harvard in 1907, and has since been in a flock of professions, from that of a newspaper man to heading the administrative side of the Radio Research Laboratory here during...
Harry Truman knew as well as any Republican that the Democrats did not have a prayer to win New York state unless they could pile up a huge majority in heavily Jewish New York City. Through the political grapevine, the President also knew that Tom Dewey was going to take a whack at Democratic handling of the Palestine question...
...this dream car is still largely in the dream stage. Tucker President Preston Tucker has little more than a ten-year lease (beginning next March) on a plant in Chicago, a staff of 125, a pile of blueprints. All he now needs: 1) investors to buy a $20,000,000 stock issue still to be registered with the SEC, 2) production equipment, 3) materials...
Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...
Operating almost exclusively from the outweighed the Jumbos at least ten pounds a man, pushed its Medford fees all over the field in the first half to pile up an impressive 24 to 0 lead, and ended its scoring parade with two touchdowns in the final period...