Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...
...Though the Hound is already elephant-sized, President Orville Caesar, 54, plans to keep it right on growing. As Wickman is chairman of the board of directors, most of the Hound's care and feeding is up to Caesar. He now has in the works a $20 million project for new terminals, at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, along with garages, restaurants and comfort stations...
With a big wad burning a hole in his pocket, Paul F. Clark, president of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., dropped in on Los Angeles. He wanted to invest his company's cash in a new housing project which house-hungry Los Angeles badly needed. But last week Clark decided against it; he saw clouds ahead for even Sunkist Angelenos. Said he: "We can't help solve your housing problem because of your real-estate inflation. An insurance company can't invest in blown-up values. Real estate is more inflated in California...
...convenient accommodations in the Austrian castle of Leopold-skron, and the first definite lineup of a faculty for the 80 or more European students who will study American civilization at Salzburg this summer were announced last night by the Student Council as the scheme now ceases to be a project and becomes an assured reality...
Acting in a typical buildoggish manner, it appears, the Record's editors somehow got wind of the project, telephoned local distributors to get out the issue ahead of time, and spent Saturday and Sunday rubbing their hands in glee...