Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shepard, starting from scratch this year with very few early candidates, has developed a good Jayvee team built around some promising sophomores from last year's Yardling eleven...
...Queney and Holmboe will do most of their work on the ground with pencils and scratch pad. The chief practical scientist of the airwave project is German-born Dr. Joachim Kuettner, former world record glider pilot, who will fly and watch others fly into the waves themselves...
...novices in the sulphur business, learning it from scratch, the young partners knew enough to see that Freeport's resources were alarmingly low. They set out to find new sulphur beds, by the mid-30s had put the company squarely on its feet again with Louisiana's Grand Ecaille, Freeport's biggest mine, built the whole town of Port Sulphur (1950 pop. 2,250) to house the workers and ship the sulphur. Watery Mine. To get the brimstone out of the ground at Garden Island, Freeport plans to build a $10 to $15 million plant. Garden Island...
...scarce materials, and credit restrictions will be lifted since the houses will sell for less than $12,000. The Levitts have bought 2,500 acres (average price: $1,100 an acre). They will break ground for Levittown, Pa. in two months, and will put up a complete community from scratch with the usual Levitt trademarks: swimming pools, a town hall, athletic fields, parks, playgrounds, schools and shopping centers...
...Bennett, from simmons agrees. "Harvard wasn't exactly foreign territory to me," she smiles, "I know some boys at the Business School who told me to come over and scratch the ivy on these walls. So I scratched and learned...