Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill was a Texas Ranger 50 years ago, and he is chaplain of the Texas Rangers today. He left the saddle, the mesquite, the Rangers' campfire and their dogged trail of the lawless to become Texas' best-loved Presbyterian minister. . . . For years he was a missionary to Korea, his two boys and his wife accompanying...
...luxe coach trains already running prove it. For example New York Central's New York-Chicago Pacemaker averages 500 passengers in twelve to 15 cars nightly. So does the Pennsylvania's Trail Blazer. Both should gross better than $5-6,000 a trip on a direct out-of-pocket cost for wages, fuel, cleaning, etc. of over...
Purp (formally known as the Production Requirements Plan) is Don Nelson's way to end the raw-materials "shortage."' The most far-reaching plan ever devised to control U.S. production from Washington, its job is to trail every ton of priority material down to its ultimate use. Purp would stop stockpiling and hoarding by putting all allocations on a short-term basis. The statistical job it requires is so immense that Washington wags say only six men understand it and five of them have gone crazy; it is so elaborate that, during its "voluntary" trial last spring...
...more players reached the semi-final round of the University Tennis Tournament this week, first seeded Al Everts, Varsity number one man, and Mal Moley, Freshman racquet-wielder, who has been blazing a phenomenal trail in this tournament...
Where the trail reaches up to cross a 7,000-foot pass in the lofty Owen Stanley Range, the Jap advance parties fired their first shots. Allied scouts had worked their way across the mountains and were waiting. Most of them were not professional soldiers: they were prospectors, trappers and foresters, and their lives had long depended on living off the country, hiding in it from New Guinea's cannibal natives...