Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starter, Harry Truman last week jumped on a train and rode up to the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. There, wearing a plastic raincoat against a fine driving rain, he stood bareheaded as guns boomed his 21-gun salute, splashed through puddles to inspect the guard, maneuvered a radio-controlled tank by a switchboard placed in his hand, and watched the U.S. Army show off its newest weapons. Then he hurried back to Washington to keep a date: a family dinner to celebrate daughter Margaret's 27th birthday...
...Starter Trouble. Lindsay and Petersen sold their first issues at speedways, race tracks, in backyard garages and wherever they heard the roar of motors. By the third issue they were ready to try the newsstands, go ahead confidently on their monthly production schedule, and build up a crew of technical correspondents across...
Columbia's power lies in the fact that four of the five starters are fine shots, thus spreading the scoring threat evenly. Captain John Azary is one of the more poised ballplayers in the East, and a fine defensive player. Sophomore Jack Molines is six feet four--the tallest starter--and leads the squad in scoring...
...Reiss and Tom Powers, both over six two, are the other sharp-shooters. Al Stein, at five eleven, the smallest starter, is a cool playmaker. Besides the starting five, there are two other consistent scorers who spend most of their time on the bench--Frank Lewis and Bob Sullivan. Lewis in six five, and Sullivan scored the basket which beat Princeton...
...speed up Washington's snail-slow letting of war contracts. A $100 million contract for military trucks was given to General Motors Corp., and a $160 million contract for medium tanks to Chrysler Corp., its biggest contract to date. The Chrysler contract, said Army Ordnance, was a starter on one of the largest tank orders ever placed by the Army. But production probably would not begin for many months, since Chrysler planned to build a new plant near Newark, Del. to make the tanks...