Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time, he used Brackenridge Park so studiously that he became a below-par golfer, once making Ripley's Believe It or Not when he drove 300 yds. plus on to one green three times, sinking the putt on each occasion for an eagle deuce...
...Steel Corp. Adams caught the fancy of Jones & Laughlin's Chairman Ben Moreell, who remains chief executive officer, by his $115 million Pittsburgh Steel rebuilding program, which is expected to increase sales from $118 million in 1950 to an estimated $225 million this year. ¶ Allison R. (for Ripley) Maxwell Jr., 42, Pittsburgh Steel's sales vice president, stepped into the shoes of Avery Adams. A native of Pittsburgh, he joined the company straight from Princeton in 1935, climbed through sales and engineering to the No. i sales post in 1952. There he helped change Pittsburgh Steel...
...London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses...
...great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial position. Thus the Santa Fe rolled smoothly through the Depression, paid dividends on its common stock almost every year...
...Family. In Ripley, Tenn., after running for mayor and getting only 57 out of 1,163 votes cast, Dr. J. Louie Freeman announced that he would contest the election, demand a recount: "I have more than 57 relatives . . . who I know voted...