Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...
...that it might stop, but that it might roll ahead too fast. The season's new splurge of auto buying pushed consumer credit up another $750 million to an alltime record of $33.6 billion. At the Chicago meeting of the American Bankers Association, Treasury Under Secretary Randolph Burgess warned: "The very growth and prosperity of today have brought the threat of inflation." There were some bankers who agreed with him. However, many said that they hesitate to turn a customer down, because they know he can very easily take his business to a finance company, or to another bank...
...Stapp went on active duty as a first lieutenant in the medical corps, by V-J day had progressed, via half a dozen U.S. bases, to Randolph Field, Texas, known affectionately to those who served there as the "Worst Point of the Air." At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., in one day during the first flush of demobilization, Dr. Stapp examined the eyes, ears, noses and throats of 600 men-"a nightmare relieved only by the thought that I might have been a proctologist...
...when he found that "I was not so hot as a reporter." Doorly moved up on the business side, put the World-Herald solidly in the black (and on the Republican side) and made it one of the most profitable, strongly entrenched dailies in the country. In 1928 William Randolph Hearst took over the Omaha Bee-News, challenged Doorly, and took a sound whipping. In less than ten years Hearst had to sell out to Doorly, after having put more than $6,000,000 into the fight...
...onetime Hollywood queen and longtime friend and helpmate of Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst last week talked about her "current consuming interest": real estate. Said Marion Davies, now fiftyish: "Land is the most important thing in the world because it's God-given, and should be developed...