Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit's $250,000 "transfer" machines operated by Ford, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet and Packard, which can turn out a complete engine block on an automated line 100 yds. long and carry it through 500 separate processes. Whenever any part of the machine makes a mistake, a special sensing device halts all work until the mistake is corrected...
...Arbor, a University of Michigan free styler, Jack Wardrop, splashed 220 yds. in world record time (2:03.9), finished ahead of Ohio State's flipper-finned Hawaiian, Ford Konno, the previous record holder, and edged his team to a one-point (47-46) victory...
...worry him. He and Doak joined the merchant marine, but the war was over before they ever got to sea. Bobby went back to Austin while Doak went to S.M.U. On the first Saturday after they got back, they were opponents on the football field. Walker ran 50 yds. for one touchdown; Layne pitched passes for two. (Final score: Texas 12, S.M.U...
...same place at precisely the same time. When Baltimore defensemen dropped back in desperation, Layne handed off to his jolting halfback "Hunchy" Hoernschemeyer or rifled short shots to Doak Walker, his slippery high-school ex-teammate from Dallas. Of 28 Layne passes, 18 connected for 246 yds. At half time, the Lions led, 10-3. By the time the chilly autumn evening was over, the Lions were on the long end of a 27-3 score...
...some of the games went the wrong way, some of the teams and players still managed to live up to their billing. Oregon's George Shaw, a steady senior sensation who can do anything on the football field, personally accounted for more than half the 2,072 yds. his team had gained by midseason. Army, after its slow start, came up with an All-America prospect in its acrobatic end, Don Holleder. The University of Miami, hopping mad because the N.C.A.A. peeked around its blinders and imposed punishment for overenthusiastic recruiting, has been pulverizing its opposition. Oklahoma, still addicted...