Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disaster. For a while his luck held. He bought up a lease with only eleven days to run, gambled on drilling before its expiration date. It rained night & day for the whole eleven days. McCarthy toiled in knee-deep, liquid mud for days at a stretch, drove his men to exhaustion. But his derrick was up and rigged and his rotary turning in 10½ days. He brought in a big gas producer...
After a three-week layoff, the freshman hockey team heads for Exeter today to try to stretch its winning streak to five straight. The game is scheduled...
...days later, in the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity, Calumet got back in stride. With Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, Calumet's fine filly Two Lea took the lead and led the field all the way into the stretch. There Arcaro looked over his shoulder, saw Calumet's Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...
...years after Julius' death in 1936, new President William E. Schmid, a Garfinckel veteran who had begun his business career as a clerk in a packing house, began making changes. He launched ad campaigns, even wriggled into television with a demonstration by a model of a two-way stretch girdle. Sales have grown until last year Garfinckel's gross was $21.6 million...
...turn of Artist Gulley Jimson, one of man-eating Sara's three ex-husbands, to take the story on its final rounds. Gulley comes prancing out of jail into the middle of the picture on Page One and except for a brief retirement (a six-month stretch for stealing a wealthy patron's diamond-studded snuffboxes) he holds the center of the stage to the very...