Word: barney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years back, the man who drove a 100-h.p. car was considered a dashing fellow with some of the glamour of a Barney Oldfield. But by this week, when General Motors rolled out four of its new 1953 lines, the 100-h.p. auto was almost as dated as the linen duster. Chevrolet's horsepower was boosted from 105 to 115, Buick's from 170 to 188 (in the Roadmaster), Oldsmobile's from...
Sixty-one years ago, in a letter acknowledging a bank draft of $75, Dow Chemical Co.'s Founder Herbert H. Dow wrote: "I think this will last us quite a while." Last week, in the Wall Street offices of Smith, Barney & Co., Dow's present President Leland I. Doan received another check. The amount: $100,425,000. Doan didn't think it would last long. Dow will probably be looking for more money in four years...
...U.S.A.F.'s most famous flying twins, Lieut. General Barney and Major General Benny Giles retired...
...Within two weeks of my divorce," says Cobina, "America entered the war." President Wilson could scarcely have timed it better, for when the first Yanks arrived in Paris they found Cobina there to entertain them. She buddied around with General "Jack" Pershing, Barney Baruch, Jesse Jones and the Aga Khan. The spiritual ruler of millions of Ismailian Moslems was famous in those days, Cobina remembers, for his vast appetite at table and a fabulous bed, large enough for 24 people...
Last July, the news turned sour. Williamsburg began to hear ugly rumors about the athletic department. Football Coach Rube McCray and Basketball Coach Barney Wilson suddenly resigned. At that point, the Board of Visitors decided to investigate. The board found that, as far back as 1949, the athletic department had been falsifying the high-school transcripts of promising athletes to make sure they would get into the college. And last spring, Dean Nelson Marshall had found that the department had been giving unearned credits in physical education. But it was not until July, just before the two coaches resigned, that...