Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment the bill was opened to amendments from the floor, Georgia's John Stephens Wood was on his feet. He offered an "amendment" which was actually an entire bill. Congressman Wood's proposal would, in effect, re-enact the Taft-Hartley Act. The fight promptly became: Lesinski bill v. Wood bill...
...Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program...
...Louisville. Last week at Jamaica the track was sloppy for the $40,000 Wood Memorial, the race that had been a Derby stepping stone for such great horses as Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox, Count Fleet and Assault. The odds on Olympia were a prohibitive 1 to 3. He shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding...
During World War I he was co-designer of the famed Liberty engines, developed Packard's Twin6 in 1915 (first U.S. 12-cylinder production car) and helped develop engines for Gar Wood's 125-m.p.h. speedboats. During World War II, he redesigned Rolls-Royce's Merlin aircraft engine (used in P-51s and Spitfires) so that it could be mass-produced by Packard...
...speedboat racer himself, Vincent once took such a battering from Gar Wood's backwash that he emerged from the cockpit of his boat black & blue, and groaned: "I'm through with this. I'll fly airplanes." Fly them he did until four years ago when he turned 65 and felt he "should depend . . . on the skill of someone else much younger." Packard is still depending on Vincent's skill. It set a postwar Packard record by selling 11,594 cars in March...