Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once called upon "to do good work for our beloved President, Franklin Roosevelt," or, at least, Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. crony, had hired him to do some investigating and had said it was for Roosevelt. When sub committee members demanded to be told just what kind of job it was, Grunewald balked again: "I don't think the President would want it [told]." The subcommittee wearily pondered whether Grunewald, already convicted of contempt of Congress, was in contempt again...
...make enough money. Its prices are too low." Armco's President Weber W. Sebald said that his company is studying its price lists, and expects to make some upward adjustments soon. At a Miami convention of steel distributors, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless referred to the "sub-competitive price" of steel, and said: "There's no fat left on our financial bones . . . Since 1940, U.S. Steel's employment costs have risen 155%. The cost of the goods and services we bought has increased by 138%. But the price of steel has gone up only...
Almost lost in the shuffle, but never far from anyone's mind, was Ben Hogan himself. The taciturn Texan, with eleven sub-par practice rounds under his belt, spent the final day of practice just puttering around the putting green. Admitting he was "in grand shape" (he had not played a major tournament in ten months), Hogan made one prediction: the tournament scoring record-279-would be broken. All Ben failed to say was that he would take care of the record-breaking himself...
Toward the end of his first round, Ben ran into all sorts of trouble; he was in the water on No. 15, in bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18. Each error cost him a stroke, yet he wound up with a sub-par 70 in a tie for third place-one stroke up on Snead, three on Boros, four on Mangrum. A second-round 69 put Hogan in the lead...
They 11 never catch him now." Ben finished with a 66, "the best I've ever played it Augusta," for an insurmountable four-stroke lead going into the final round. This week cool-as-ice Ben banged out his fourth straight sub-par round, a 69 to beat Runner-Up Oliver and the Masters scoring record by five strokes with a fabulous...