Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step, he wangled two surplus DC-35 from the Civil Aeronautics Board, hopes to have them operating in two months. With them as a starter, he hopes to bring an end to the present haphazard schedules, and to knock down fares...
...Matures so quickly that the boll weevil, a late spring starter, can do it little damage. It is also practically immune to the bud-eating thrip...
...Starter at the left forward position, Clark was high scorer for the victors, as seven field goals and a free throw netted him 15 points...
...five forwards well over 6 feet 2 inches who have college court experience. Dick Gilbert, who is expected to lead the attack, played in Madison Square Garden for a championship Duke University quintet. The tallest man on the squad, 6 foot 5 inch Bob Gottschling, was a starter for Manhattan College, while Jim Gallagher, an Irishman from Notre Dame, Bill Dearden from Ursinus, and Bill Bateman, a member of the 1943 Brown five, round out the crew of prospective high scorers...
...knew that the co-ops also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan. At present their import needs are at least 1,500,000 hogs a year-one-sixth of Canada's total production...