Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When center John L. Lewis, Jr., a Texan, found that lab sessions were making him late for the start of football practice at Harvard, he purchased a bicycle to cut the time a little...
...Complaining that he cannot live openly with a death sentence over his head, a 90-year-old Texan, who claims to be Billy the Kid,* had his attorneys apply to the governor of New Mexico for a pardon. Officials wanted to look over his credentials, but he stubbornly refused to meet with them unless granted immunity...
Commanding the four Shooting Stars, Major Evans G. Stephens, a Texan, and his wingman, Lieut. Russell Brown of Pasadena, Calif., saw two Communist jets pull out of a dive 50 miles south of the Yalu and turn toward the river at the Americans' altitude, closing fast. Said Stephens afterwards, "Brown and I were between the enemy jets and the river. I called to the rest of my flight to come on up-we have two of them cornered...
Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...
Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend...