Word: shoestringing
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The New Century. As the city grew, so did the power of Otis and his friends. In 1890 Otis proclaimed that bustling Los Angeles (pop. 50,000) must have a "free" harbor, thereby threw himself and the Times into a seven-year battle with the powerful Southern Pacific and its...
The Moscow exhibit will be the most significant step yet by U.S. trade-fair planners. But it was long in coming. From 1950 to December 1954, the Soviet bloc sent its lavish government exhibits to 133 trade fairs, the U.S. to none. Finally alarmed by the Red propaganda gains, President...
In The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler announced with a certain gloomy satisfaction that "the Caesarism that is to succeed approaches with quiet, firm step." History was always goose-stepping its way through the centuries in Spengler's vision. Compared with his German mentor France's Amaury...
After giving up a somewhat tainted home run to the lead-off batter, a line drive on which right fielder Matt Botsford missed making a shoestring catch, Crimson hurler Bob McGinnis held Boston University scoreless the rest of the route as Harvard went on to win the contest 7 to...
During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to...