Word: scrappers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicken Feed. Ruddy Tongg, 44, has been a scrapper all his life. The son of a plantation laborer, Ruddy earned his way through the University of Hawaii by working as a cannery yardboy and cook, and tending chickens on the university poultry farm...
Veteran Radioman Ratner, 43, is in a good spot to hit back at radio's detractors: he is the new CBS vice president in charge of promotion and advertising. He is a veteran scrapper (as a University of Michigan freshman, he once outwrestled Ed "Don" George, who became a topflight U.S. heavyweight...
...punishment from German shells. But she had come back. In World War II she had been seriously damaged in action off Salerno, but had come back to fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear, was being towed to a scrapper's yard when the gales hit. The Warspite was swept aground near a Cornish town named Mousehole. Then the big seas lifted her close to shore. A lifesaving crew, risking destruction, got the crewmen safely ashore. But the Warspite was doomed to final breakup on the jagged rocks...
...Warm-Up. Annapolis left less of its conservative impress on Halsey than on most of its graduates. He acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to make up his mind and fearless in action. He became the kind of man around whom legends grow...
...Guts. This set stockholders boiling again. Scrapper Norman shouted that they "wanted some directors with guts who would fight the SEC." Another proposed to pitch out the present nine-man board of directors, put in three management men, three preferred stockholders, three common shareholders. President Murphy called this "an excellent idea," but out of order unless names were submitted in advance. Then over-zealous Okin grabbed the floor again, harangued for over an hour. The shareholders listened at first, then heckled him, hooted him, finally shouted him down...