Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embroidering it with hints that the vessel might even be the mother ship of a vast fleet of coastal rumrunners. When rivals found nothing but salt water, and questioned Jarrell's story, the Trib replied by comparing him to Christopher Columbus. "It has been the lot of the pioneer ever to find on his return from a successful quest that those who remained at home the while were seeking to belittle his discovery," said a Trib editorial. But even the Trib was getting nervous. Jarrell left the office, sent back a messenger with his confession. The belittlers, he admitted...
...Smith dispatched seven missionaries to England-a venture that possibly saved the church from extinction. Working with the zeal of early Christians, the Mormons made 77,000 converts in two decades, sent most of their newly baptized off as emigrants to the U.S., where they were needed for the pioneer job of settling Utah. But by the turn of the century, conversions in Britain numbered only about 300 a year, and things stayed that way until By Woodbury went to England...
...World of Jimmy Doolittle (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The story of the World War II hero and aviation pioneer...
...grandson of wealthy oilmen, Teagle rebuilt Standard after it was fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight-hour...
Amidst the brocade and crystal furnishings of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel, Pioneer Modern Architect Walter Gropius, 78, stood up to receive the second Kaufmann International Design Award, a tax-free $20,000, for his "achievement in design education" while founder and director of Germany's austerely functional Bauhaus. Gropius cast a wry glance at most modern buildings, said, "It seems completely futile to inject quality into buildings and goods which are created only for their short entertainment value." What was needed in the U.S., said Gropius, was a movement like Britain's "Anti-Uglies," irate architecture...