Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. Later in the week, Dwight Eisenhower (who has trouble sleeping if he goes very long without exercise) was able to take his first afternoon off for 18 holes of golf with Omar Bradley, Washington Banker Robert V. Fleming and Colonel Thomas Belshe, an old friend, at swank Burning Tree Club. Ike's score: "in the low 90s," a poor showing for a golfer who shoots in the low 80s when he is on his game...
...driving down Connecticut's broad, tree-lined Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...Superintendent Ray Anderson of the First Baptist Church in Lakewood, Calif. stayed up a eucalyptus tree for 20 hours, until attendance...
...engineer-trained farmer, Stahmann runs his farm like a factory. When he took up pecans, for example, he cut down the labor needed for tree-shaking with a tree-shaking machine, something like a reducing vibrator. For his geese, Stahmann began a scientific test of the market, priced them low (i.e., only 20? profit per bird), found that housewives snapped them up as bargains. He set up batteries of incubators and brooders, invested $80,000 in an eviscerating and quick-freeze plant. His geese are now laying at the rate of 80,000 eggs a month, and Stahmann is hatching...
...scene, he found part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons...