Word: recaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relaxes. The sawed-off ex-halfback spends the 60 minutes of play talking into a telephone which runs to the bench, where quarterbacks and coaches can check on the progress of the week's game plan; between halves he talks to the signal callers and gives Valpey a quick recap of the effectiveness of Crimson formations...
...Work. Already 50 workmen had been hired to repair outlet valves on the 684-ft.-wide dam, patch up the ancient bunkhouses, put the powerhouse in operation, recap and creosote the dock pilings. Topflight Swedish engineers had been asked for estimates on electric furnaces and other key installations. To get things ready, between $500,000 and $1,000,000 would be spent...
...recap of the votes of the umpires for the All-Star team which is expected to compete with some of the other service schools shows that the following men have received two votes apiece: Guince, Harkins, Maiman, Massopust, Raiter, and Seaberg. Those who have received one vote are: Chidester, Donohue, Grant, Haight, Hallan, Hammond, Lenox, McDermott, Moore, Morrison, Nee, Replogle, Reilly, Schur, Smith, G. S., Turtie, Weidman, and Ziegler...
...tire industry told WPB that with only 4,500 tons of crude (less than 1% of the remaining U.S. stockpile) and 234,000 tons of reclaim (about one-third of U.S. two-year capacity) it can recap enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average...
...more new tires? Then you recap. No-now there was no "camelback" for use in recapping, either, except for a few "essential" autos. But you still have your old tires. Well, maybe-but Leon Henderson hinted last week that the U.S. might requisition tires from private cars to keep doctors, police, defense workers rolling. Well, you can take a taxi. No-taxi tires wear out too"; taximen predicted they'd be off the streets in a few months...