Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans which, despite its natural advantages, had languished after the Civil War. Up-&-coming ports like Houston snatched the title of No. i cotton shipper and took the business away. New Orleans shippers talked about snatching it back, but nothing much came of the talk until Governor Sam Jones in 1940 appointed a chunky cotton merchant named Edward Oswald ("Archie") Jewell to boss the Board of Port Commissioners (the "dock board''), which operates the 7½ miles of publicly owned quays and warehouses...
...excellent box-office draw was Sam Goldwyn's nine-Oscar-winning The Best Years of Our Lives. Other favorites...
...some creditably low tallies have been registered. Tyke Wilcox, lead-off man in the links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon, Larry Gray, and Ozzie Keiver make up a sizable squad of golfers, all of whom have played in at least one match, and all of whom create a headache...
...bottom half of the sixth, after Charly Senay's towering triple to right with the sacks full of Deacons had put them out in front, 4 to 3. Eliot's third hurler of the day, Bill Foster, jughandled his way to a decision over Kirkland's ace rightbander Sam Bush, shelling him from the mound personally with a two-run double in the explosive sixth...
...Wilmington (5); one-mile run--Frank Gurley (4); 120-yard high hurdles--Wes Flint (2); 220-yard low hurdles--Wes Flint (4); one-mile relay--Dave Hamblett--Al Ruby-Arnie Edelman-Jim Wheeler (3); 16-pound shot put-Bill Jackson (3); 16-pound hammer throw--Jack Fisher (1), Sam Felton (2), John Thorndike (4); pole vault--Pete Harwood (tie for first); Bill Lawrence (3), Owen Torrey (4); javelin throw--Don Trimble (2), Ed Kaelber (5); high jump--Gene Harrington (tie for third); discus throw--Sam Felton (3), Bill Jackson...