Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great shaggy bear of a man rose this week in Washington before a distinguished audience of hypersonic-flight experts to deliver the prestigious Wright Brothers Lecture. For Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...before they would sell him the land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose Bowl. If his gift of gab fails him, he will have to fall back on Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. Either stadium could pack in some of the biggest crowds on record (some 100,000 fans). With their brief foul lines (as short as 300 ft.) and distant stands, they...
...football schedules, the universities at Berkeley and Los Angeles decided to i) suffer through their penalties for past sins and 2) quit the P.C.C. on June 30, 1959. Other conference schools immediately began to talk of resigning. Faced with the probable dissolution of the P.C.C., the Tournament of Roses Committee may soon make new arrangements for choosing a Western Rose Bowl competitor...
DIVIDEND PAYMENTS last month rose 3½% over same time last year to $325 million. Commerce Department says that biggest gains were made in chemicals, transportation equipment, utilities, iron and steel. For first eleven months of 1957, dividend payments by publicly reporting firms reached $9.36 billion v. $9.04 billion last year...
...yard medley relay--won by Harvard; Murray, Stanley, Hammond, and Mischner; second, M.I.T.; Divine, West, Getchell, and Veeck. Time--4:01.8. (breaks pool record). 220-yard freestyle--Won by Seaton (H); second, Ulbrich (H); third, Kohlman (M.I.T.). Time--2:21. 50-yard freestyle--Won by Zemo (H); second, Rose (H); third, Kane (M.I.T.). Time 24.4. 100-yard butterfly--Won by Hammond (H); second, Perilman (H); third, Getchell (M.I.T.). Time--56.4. (breaks pool record). Dive--Won by Gorman (H); second, Stone (H); third, Cahlender (M.I.T.). 78.38 points. 100-yard freestyle--Won by Boeckler (H); second, Cochran (H); third, Windle (M.I.T.). Time...