Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snaps the whip. Boss Rickey has a great gift for spotting young talent, signing them up hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed in Rickey's new training school at Pensacola...
...readings will be held tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Big Tree. Parts to be reassigned are those of Joxer, a comedy role, Mary, second female lead, and Mrs. Madigan, a 45 year old woman...
...Amazons. From the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., Dr. Carl Hubbs reported on a small fish called Molliensia formosa. It is a native of Mexico with an odd family tree...
...Chestnut Tree the deadening routine of a London business office is shattered when two women are added to the all-male staff: "Miss Browne the elder, whom we had seen, was like a swan and thought so herself. Her fair hair, she conveyed to you, was her glory. She was curving and sedate. With the sleepy smile of one lying on a feather bed in Paradise, with tiny grey eyes behind the pince-nez which sat on her nose, with the swell of long low breasts balanced by the swell of her dawdling rump, she moved swanlike to her desk...
...Flint, Mich., he quit school at 17. By selling patent medicine, cigars, insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...