Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to cope with the problem. The Army sent chunky, wisecracking Colonel Baxter over to WPB to take on the job. Colonel Baxter is no novice in war work or Government jobs: he had almost 20 years of active service after graduating from West Point in 1911, plus a stretch as one of Hugh Johnson's division heads in NRA days. This week Colonel Baxter is due to make his first move: a new Steel Recovery Corp., backed by RFC funds, is scheduled to open in Pittsburgh as a clearing house for "frustrated" steel products...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...
...commentary is often corny and certainly this is not by any stretch the story of the whole Battle of Midway. But history would be a different matter if there had been a few such sketchy pictures of Austerlitz, of Jutland, of Gettysburg and Verdun...
...think we're in," gloated Cardinal President Sam Breadon, banking on this year's team to repeat the miracle stretch drives...
...cope with the detail of enforcing this drastic transportation edict ODT will increase its number of regional offices from 50 to 150. With luck, and truck drivers willing, ODT hopes to stretch the tire supply until there is enough synthetic rubber available for civilian needs...