Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White House...
...Shetzleys' contribution has been forwarded to The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, c/o Dr. Emory Ross, treasurer, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City...
When television sales began to blur several months ago, Admiral Corp.'s President Ross Siragusa thought he had the answer. By stamping entire console cabinets out of plastic in one piece (TIME, May 16), he was able to step up output and make some handsome price cuts. Last week it looked as though Siragusa's answer was right. Admiral Corp. had a second-quarter profit of $1.6 million, 129% more than its net for the same 1948 period...
Remarried. Barney Ross, 40, onetime world's lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...
...chance in Chicago's rich ($74,975) Arlington Futurity was Owner W. M. Peavey, a paper-mill operator from Ladysmith, Wis. His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped off with the Rose Leaves Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston's Suffolk Downs, Growing Up ($30.20) surprised the connoisseurs. Colonel Mike, winner of the Lamplighter Handicap at Monmouth Park (N.J.), paid $21.60. In New York, there was a slight delay while the judges examined the photograph after the $58,400 Butler Handicap. Then those...