Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ADAMS TULSA, OKLA...
...Force's Scorpion F89 all-weather interceptor, had rearranged its plant "to create more efficient flow lines," had thus channeled men and materials away from current production. In Santa Monica, Douglas Aircraft plucked skilled supervisors from its assembly lines, shipped them and a batch of machine tools to Tulsa as the nucleus of a new production staff for the six-jet Boeing B-47V bomber. And instead of "freezing" their designs for mass production, most manufacturers were slowing down production from time to time, retooling for improved models...
Only a small slice of the world was listening the day a big-boned girl named Clara Anne Fowler stepped up to sing on Tulsa's KTUL. The program was a hillbilly affair sponsored by the Page Milk Co. Its sales-conscious title: "Meet Patti Page...
...Back in Oklahoma, mother & father Fowler still have their fingers crossed about their tenth child's sudden national fame. So has Patti: "Sometimes when people stare at me, I can't believe it's true." In her KTUL days, she also sang a bit in a Tulsa nightclub. But she regarded her singing jobs as merely an earning spell between high school and marriage. She began to build as a singer when a fast-moving, pressagent-manager type named Jack Rael took her over. He signed her as a songbird with Jimmy Joy's band...
Last season Georgetown played Penn State, Tulsa, B.C., Maryland, Villanova, Fordham, Holy Cross, and George Washington, beating both New England teams...