Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Fritz Mayer reached his retirement age two years ago, his magnificent instrument (current value: $350,000) was still incomplete: the highly complicated piston controls-for quick changing of the 757 stop keys-were not hooked up. Under the energetic leadership of Manhattan's Mrs. Courtney Campbell, veteran of Washington politics, Mayer's friends went to work, lobbied through Congress and right up to the White House. Result: President Truman's Executive Order 10,334, exempting Mayer from compulsory retirement "in the public interest . . . for an indefinite period." Organist Mayer went right on supervising the completion...
...will try to continue our operations in the north." But the two U.S. oil companies in Indo-China, Standard-Vacuum and Cal-tex, were not so hopeful. Stanvac closed down completely in Hanoi, was only doing a small business in Haiphong. Caltex took out everything movable. Said one veteran Caltex man: "Our experience in China, where we lost five huge refineries, taught us that there is no possibility of coexistence with Communists...
...born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Though he comes from a titled family, Sir Eric earned his knighthood for World War II service in the Air Ministry. The family has been in the paper business since 1881, but it was not until Eric, a wounded veteran, joined the firm in 1921 that the company began to expand fast. Sir Eric decided that the firm, then only a trading company with assets of $1,500.000, ought to get into manufacturing. Unable to persuade some uncles in the firm to agree, he got British Press Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail...
...halfback led Columbia's ground attack last year and earned a reputation as an ace passcatcher. He pulled in Carr's touchdown toss to give the Light Blue a 6 to 0 victory over the Crimson last year at Baker Field. In case Moreier plays only in sports today, veteran junior Ken Priore will be at right half. Last year's freshman captain, 190 pound Mike Lacope, a husky, driving runner who has handled almost all the inside work this year, will be at fullback...
...years of World Series history, only seven clubs had won a four-game series. Now, anyone who doubted that the Giants would be the eighth was careful not to talk out loud. Even a pinch-hit homer by the Indians' veteran castoff, Hank Majeski, did not break the spell. Winning the fourth game, 7-4, was so simple that Leo Durocher did not even bother to call on Dusty Rhodes...