Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wheels for Pershing. Making such profits is relatively new to Budd. The late Edward Gowen Budd, who founded the company* 38 years ago, was often willing to toss good profits overboard in order to try a new technological twist. He built the first all-steel auto body for Charles Nash (then president of G.M.) in 1912, made the first U.S. all-steel auto wheel to fit General John J. Pershing's staff cars during World War I. The manufacturing company expanded with the auto industry to the point where it grossed $24.7 million in 1925, but it never made...
...Stockholm, Yaleman Jim Fuchs won an international shot-put meet with a heave of 54 ft. 7½ in., returned to the field this week to make his best toss yet, a world-record 58 ft. 9 9/641n...
...Davis Cup team got a rude shock when Sweden's big, blond Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman and veteran Jack Bromwich in two of the four singles matches. After his second victory, proud Swedes piled out of the stands to treat Bergelin to an old Swedish hissa (a toss in the air). Then the Aussies settled down and won the deciding match. Their next opponent...
Over whisky sours in White Sulphur Springs' lavish Greenbrier Hotel, two big men talked earnestly. From a respectful distance, other governors and correspondents watched them. "There may be the Republican presidential ticket in 1952," said a reporter. "They might just toss a coin to see who gets top place." He was talking about California's Governor Earl Warren and Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff...
...Felton, former College track star now attending the Business School, threw the 16-pound hammer 187 feet, 7 1-4 inches during the annual spring games of the New York Athletic Club at Travers Island Saturday. Felton's toss, which broke the meet record of 185 feet, 1 inch set by the late Matt McGrath in 1913, was the longest hammer throw by an American in 37 years...