Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...
...anybody else at his Manhattan headquarters job five days a week. After hours he takes on job No. 2. He goes home to Brooklyn and runs a dozen miles in the park; early each morning he runs some more. By last week, this sort of routine had helped make slender (145 Ibs.), 29-year-old G-Man Wilt the best two-miler in the U.S. and a real threat to current U.S. mile king Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin...
...impossible to present a defense when there has been no offense." Instructing the jury, Judge Walter J. La Buy said that the primary question was whether Tucker and associates had intended to defraud stockholders or had acted in good faith. Even though they had failed to make cars, said the judge, "good faith is a 'complete defense." This week, after 17½ hours of deliberation, the jury acquitted Tucker and associates of all counts. Said one juror: "It wasn't so hard to reach a decision. From the beginning only two jurors voted guilty." Said Tucker, whose company...
Hoping to make a molehill out of its $3.7 billion mountain of farm surpluses, the Commodity Credit Corp. last week started something like a giveaway program. It listed eleven Government-held agricultural products for sale to U.S. exporters at cut rates for resale abroad. Some of the bargains: ¶CJ 73 million Ibs. of dried eggs, originally bought at $1.30 a lb., now on sale...
...President did not want to lose sight of the child altogether; he asked Congress to make him its legal guardian. He wanted to keep his power to 1) set prices, 2) tell the industry how much synthetic to produce (a minimum of 200,000 long tons annually), and 3) specify how much synthetic must be used (at least one-quarter of total U.S. consumption...