Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard dash-Won by Fechtor (B); second, Bates (B); third, Fritts (H); fourth, Crowell (B). Time-10.3 sec. 220-yard dash-Won by Fritts (H); second, Fechtor (B); third, Clark (H); fourth, Cosgrove (T). Time-23.3 sec. Mile run-Won by Blanchard (T); second, Robbins (H); third, Foster (T); fourth, Bray (B). Time-4 min., 32.6 sec. Two-mile run-Won by Jolly (T); second, Hoverman (B); third, Martin (T); fourth, Fulton (T). Time-10 min., 40.6 sec...
High hurdles-Won by Jenkins (H); second, O'Brien (B); third, Sleicher (B); fourth, Hunter (H). Time-15.9 sec. Low hurdles-Won by Hunter (H); second, Porter (T); third, Jenkins (H); fourth, O'Brien (B). Time-26.6 sec. 440-yard dash-Won by Fechtor (B); second, Clark (H); third, Steinbauer (H); fourth, Ellis (H). Time-51.6 sec...
...yard run-Won by de Fries (H); second, Robbins (H); third, Ellis (H); fourth, Zuber (B). Time-2 min., 4.5 sec. High jump-Won by Jenkins (H); second, Dunning (T); third, tie between Dugan (T) and Sleicher (B). Height...
Senator in Action. As a Senator, Arthur Vandenberg has been a Republican independent. One of his heroes in the upper house was the late, great maverick, Bill Borah; when Borah died, Vandenberg moved into his office. He strung along with the New Deal on Social Security, SEC and price control; opposed it on TVA, the Supreme Court packing bill, and consumer subsidies. Some newsmen in the capital began to call him the "Yes and No Man." He is proud of a letter from Democrat Leo Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledging Vandenberg as the father of that...
...emergency agencies, with impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...