Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stocky, stubby-fingered Leslie Fleming, a 25-year-old Texan, is not an ideal first baseman. But he may turn out to be the American League's No. 1 batsman in his first year in the big time. For six years Fleming floundered around Detroit's farm clubs before he was finally traded to Nashville. There, last year, after a tonsillectomy, he suddenly got red hot and finished the season with a batting average of .414-second highest in all the 41 minor leagues. Snapped up by Cleveland (for $12,500) to replace Hal Trosky this year, Fleming...
...Texan South's immediate wartime job is to get rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...
...Little Ben Hogan, red-hot, ice-veined Texan: the Hale America golf tournament, war-benefit substitute for the U.S. Open; with a 72-hole total of 271 (72-62-69-68); at Chicago's Ridgemoor Country Club. Though Hogan has been golf's leading money winner for the past three years, it was his first major championship. His second-round 62 set a new U.S. national tournament record. He has averaged 70 strokes per round in close to 200 rounds of tournament play -a record no U.S. golfer has ever approached...
Many a U.S. citizen, big & little has been a victim of Congressman Dies's hit-&-run attacks. Guided only by his own rules of "evidence," giving his victims no chance to state their case, bluntly ignoring facts, the Texan has smacked and smeared and dashed off. Now he charged that 35 officials of the Board of Economic Warfare had been connected with Communist fronts. One was included because he wrote a book on nudism ten years ago. This was too much for Vice President Wallace...
...bureaucrats can tie such a Gordian knot of red tape as the gold-braided bigwigs of the U.S. Navy. Last week a rawboned, scrannel-necked Texan was busy cutting through those knots with a vengeance. As new production boss of the Navy, Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson had the tremendous job of getting material for the U.S. Fleet's gigantic warship and airplane program. He had no time for bureaucratic nonsense...