Word: provo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...General Patton himself, watching from the stands, stepped down from a gold laurel leaf-draped dais to kiss a corporal's hand. The recipient of this attention was muscular Corporal Brady Walker of Provo, Utah, who had just hurled a discus 142 ft. 9 in., to lead Patton's men to victory...
STEEL Maybe . . The West Coast heard some lively news last week: U.S. Steel was ready to dicker with the Defense Plant Corp. to buy or lease the $200,000,000 Geneva steel plant near Provo. Utah...
Republican Vetterli, with State G.O.P. backing, practically has the nomination in his pocket; so has the Democratic incumbent, stocky, stodgy J. Will Robinson of Provo. But G.O.P. chances in the election are-according to the recent past-slim: many a former WPA worker has moved to the Second District for war work to strengthen the strong Democratic forces...
...iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where they were not in use, would have to be torn down for rebuilding anyway...
...Added $500,000 to a $750,000 item on the Interior Department's supply bill for the Provo River Reclamation Project in Utah. Cut $1,000,000 from the President's item for the Bituminous Coal Division, passed the bill finally at $118,578,187, and sent it to the Senate...