Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesse D. Jewell, 49, who started raising chickens in a rickety wooden shed, 16 years ago. Today, with 2,000,000 chickens under his wing, Jesse Jewell, according to trade-association estimates, is the biggest U.S. chicken raiser. Every week, 30 carloads of chicken feed, worth $90,000, roll into Jewell's Gainesville headquarters; every week 150,000 chickens, killed and dressed, roll out to U.S. and foreign outlets. Last year Jewell grossed $12 million...
...Lions began to-roll as Johnson, Reiss and Brandt started to find the range. With five minutes to play, Columbia led, 60 to 39, and Coach Lou Rossini substitute da flock of reserves...
...Hungary. These toted up to 8,000,000. ¶ There was another wave of 1,000,000 Germans, fleeing from East Prussia. ¶ In 1946 a pogrom in Poland sent 100,000 Jews fleeing into Germany. ¶ In 1948, when Stalin took over Czechoslovakia, a new wave began to roll: those who fled the Iron Curtain...
Salting of Skepticism. As the roll call of captives was hurried along, it was heavily salted with official U.S. doubts. Pentagon telegrams cautioned that "no assurance as to accuracy can be given at this time." Warned President Harry Truman: "For the sake of the families whose sons are missing in action, everyone should treat this list with skepticism...
Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...