Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After breezing past Illinois, Iowa and Tulsa, the hot-shots from Bloomington climbed into the clouds against once-mighty Minnesota. One play made up for a lot of door-matting: with the clock running out in the first half, Pete Pihos jumped off the ground and shouted so all could hear: "Line up fast, boys, same play"; then he romped over for Indiana's, fourth touchdown of the quarter. Final score: Indiana 49, Minnesota 0. Gasped slim Nugent McMillin: "I never thought I'd live...
When genial, chubby-faced Jim Lucas joined the Marines, he left a reporting job on the Tulsa Tribune's courthouse beat, and his Boy Scoutmastering. He became a crack combat correspondent, got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa-and was threatened with court-martial for writing that "something suddenly appeared to have gone wrong." He covered eight Marine landings, then was sent home on a war-bond tour...
...materials useful to peace. Among the most promising: the radioactive elements from the uranium-plutonium piles at Hanford, Washington. But when U.S. industry asked the Army for more information, it got a brisk, firm "No!" One rejected applicant was W. G. Green, president of Well Surveys Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He wanted to consult "some technically qualified person" about using radioactive synthetics in the oil-well testing business. He got the brush...
...necessary stops on the way (see cut). In his pocket he already has Army orders for one or two Globemasters a month, and hopes for more from the airlines. Although his wartime payroll of 165,000 has shrunk to 26,000 (he closed down three Government-owned plants in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Chicago last week) he hopes that military and civilian orders will keep the three plants at Santa Monica running...
...Indianapolis, Mrs. Marietta Buchanan, whose son was lost in the Pacific, cried with rage: "I'd like to fly over there and drop more bombs myself." In Tulsa, a newsboy hawking extras cried out: "Japs Surrendering." Asked a woman war worker: "Are there comics in this paper...