Word: winfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world's largest variety-store chain (3,290 stores). The company is now adding new stores on the average of one every three working days, the greatest expansion program of its history...
...Yanqui Sam Houston, who defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and won the independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...
Following close debate, the name of General Winfield Scott, hero of the Mexican War and top-ranked Union officer in the 1860s, was returned to the membership rolls of the University of South Carolina's Clariosophic Society. The college debaters purged Scott when he stuck by the Union at the outset of the Civil War. A century later, some Clariosophomores still think Virginia's Scott was "a man with the blood of our predecessors dripping from his hands"; but the ayes had seen his glory coming...
Indiana has nine Republican incumbents, only two Democrats. The two Democrats, Gary's eight-term Ray Madden, 66, and Evansville's four-term Winfield...
Married. Miyoshi Umeki, 24, doll-like (5 ft. 2 in., 100 lbs.) Japanese cinemactress, who last March received an Academy Award as 1957's best supporting actress for her performance in Sayonara; and Frederick Winfield Opie, 34, TV associate director; she for the first time, he for the second; in Van Nuys, Calif...