Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woodcock might well be the exception to a long line of glass-chinned British heavyweights, but shrewd Tom Hurit, his manager, knew that the 24-year-old slugger was still awkward afoot and short on ring savvy. Woodcock needed two years of seasoning before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left...
...learned telegraphy. At 19 he was a train dispatcher. On his salary of $110 a month, he married Lena A. Schatz, a rural schoolteacher, and took a short time off for his honeymoon. It was his last vacation for 35 years...
Field's seemed happy too. Said short, tough, beefy Field President Hughston M. McBain: the Mart put the company into real-estate operation to a degree that was not contemplated when the Mart was built. Now that Field's has dropped its wholesale business, the Mart is just a side show. So we're selling...
...cards can expect to get new tires next February or March. So John L. Collyer predicted last week, as he resigned as WPB's rubber boss to resume the presidency of B. F. Goodrich Co. Like all rubber promises, this one was elastic: the U.S. will be dangerously short of natural rubber by year's end, will have only 66,000 tons on hand. Before A-card civilians get their tires, the U.S. will have to find 75,000 more tons of natural rubber than are now in sight...
...course was paying off. To Pupils Penick and Goss came payments for short stories from Collier's and the Atlantic Monthly; to Pupils Morgan and Flynn came advances from Publishers Farrar & Rinehart. These were new testimonials to Teacher Hudson Strode of the University of Alabama and his course in creative writing, English...