Word: palos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in Argentina, have been so nearly ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...
Engaged. Donald Budge, 25, redheaded, bucktoothed professional tennis champ; and Deirdre Conselman, Stanford sophomore, daughter of the late Bill Conselman, creator of the Ella Cinders comic strip; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...office and Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved by Jesse Jones last week, the plans were ready. Three days later the plant site was being cleared next to the Permanente cement works near Palo Alto. Dr. Hansgirg, who likes to wear slippers at work and think things over twice, was still bewildered. Said he of the blueprinting: "Somehow we did in three weeks what nobody can do in less than four months...
...crowd of 80,000, they completed their amazing jump from cellar to Rose Bowl, outplaying California (13-to-7), just as they had outplayed San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washington State, Southern California, U. C. L. A., Washington, Oregon State. Amid the loudest whoops that had been heard in Palo Alto since Ernie Nevers' day, the Indians sat down to a powwow, tried to decide whom they wanted to tackle at Pasadena on New Year...
Minneapolis, Dallas, and Palo Alto are the gridiron capitals of the nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...