Word: less
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uline Arena, Gonzales got his lumps in a hurry. Big Jake polished him in 40 minutes, a new record for the tour. The odd part of it all was that Pancho's booming cannonball service was becoming steadily more accurate-and at the same time steadily less effective. But Big Jake, seven years older and wiser than 21-year-old Pancho, had the explanation: "I wait a little longer on his serve and I've quit guessing where it's going to go. I know now. He has a way of telegraphing where it's headed...
Like many U.S. companies with subsidiaries overseas, Ford Motor Co. has had more than its share of headaches from its foreign holdings, less than its share of profits. A complicated corporate setup has not helped. Much of the stock of eleven European and Middle Eastern Ford companies is owned by the Ford Investment Co., Ltd. of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, a company which in turn is owned by Ford Motor Co., Ltd. of Britain, in which the U.S. company has a 59% interest...
Such as understanding appears less and less possible. In the November negotiations, the French had to drop their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...
...Less spectacular was the first line of Captain Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson, which brought the Crimson only two goals. Nevertheless, whenever this line was one the ice, it controlled the puck, worked more steadily than the second line, and developed more pass plays...