Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...
Captain Dusty Burke, who until his injury was the team's spark plug, shares the "team's best defense player" honor with Jack Donelan, a former New England All-Scholastic player...
...halftime Holy Cross was ahead only 25 to 15, but the Crimson's spark-plug Captain Bill Hickey fouled out just before the first half. From then on the Holy Cross giants never were challenged. The tall Crusaders set up a strong defense around the boards and Harvard could only shoot from the outside...
...Exchange will run a half-million-dollar advertising campaign next year to try to clear up "the unfamiliarity among savers, particularly in the labor and farm groups, with corporate securities." The Exchange will plug stock purchases as a regular part of the family saving program. The specific target: earners of $5,000 a year or less. Said one hopeful Stock Exchange member: they "constitute the hope of the financial community...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...