Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining $4,500,000 in one month. Thus John L. could cry: "If this desperately needed assistance . . . stops, as it will at the end of June unless the 1947 fund is unfrozen, it will cause a major convulsion . . . and will enflame the mining population with white anger." As a starter, John L. was on fire...
...left a teaching job there to join Standard Oil Co. (of Ohio) in 1928, was vice president in charge of production when Bill Mellon hired him a year ago. With Swensrud as chief administrative officer, Gulf is certain to continue on its big-spending Mellon way. As a starter, it will spend up to $20 million3 on development in the Middle East alone...
Unlike Crapo Smith, leathery Daniel G. Arnstein is still young at 58, very much alive, and dapper rather than dignified. He quit school at 13 to help support his family, worked as a $2-a-week office boy, and later as a cab starter. For a while, he went to night school, carried a dictionary around with him to look up the words he didn't know. But he never got to college: "I majored in work...
...Meears, who took over the pitching reins from starter George Emmons in the first inning, had things pretty much his own way, giving up only one run before the fatal sixth...
...Freshmen get back into action this afternoon when Northeastern visits Soldiers Field. Saturday's postponed game gave Coach Moe Berg a chance to rest his ace, Roy Meears, who should be ready today. George Emmons is another potential starter, as the Yardlings seek their second win of the season...