Word: woodruffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drake had a queen (Frances Rather), warm weather the first day, cold the second. Penn had no queen (officials thought it undignified), cold weather the first day, warm the second. Drake had six 1936 Olympic trackmen, no Olympic champions. Penn had ten, of whom two (Spec Towns and Johnny Woodruff) were champions. Drake crowds totaled 20,000. Penn crowds totaled 50,000. Feature event at Drake was an invitation one and a half mile race...
...Woodruff and R. W. George of Tarkio (Mo.) College reported affirmative results with ESP cards. When a screen was interposed between cards and performer, two subjects grew worse but one improved...
...Herbert, a Negro employe of the New York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
Five days prior, William Moyers went to the office of his old friend Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola Corp., held a revolver on him, forced him to call their mutual friend Thomas K. Glenn, president of Georgia Trust Co., and order him to bring $30,000 in cash to the office immediately. While he waited for the money, Moyers held Woodruff, his secretary and an office visitor at bay. When Banker Glenn arrived, Moyers pocketed the money. Banker Glenn was then forced to accompany Moyers to the street where he disappeared into a crowd of some 20,000 that...
...During the War, White made its all-time production record of 15,000 units, most of which went to France. Management was in the hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola's Robert W. Woodruff then stepped in but soon found commuting between Coca-Cola offices in Atlanta and White's offices in Cleveland too strenuous. After Ashton G. Bean was installed as president, White went to the altar with Studebaker, but a 3% stockholders' minority was unable to hold its peace forever...