Word: rivaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Republicanism won. In a heavy turnout for an odd-year election, the voters of the Fourth District gave the Republican candidate, John Kyi, 40, their approval by a solid 2,532 plurality over his Democratic rival, C. (for Charles) Edwin Gilmour, 41. The election fascinated politicos for two reasons: 1) the Fourth District, with a large population of corn-hog farmers and smaller but important groups of factory workers and merchants, is a good litmus for testing the trends of the Farm Belt; 2) only a year ago the district sent the first Democrat in its history...
...partner, Matt Kolb, he carved out an empire of suburban speakeasies, controlled a big slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy was a natural rival and a menace. To Police Captain Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, often called "the richest cop in the world," he was fair game in the Chicago guerrilla war. But Roger got along until Matt Kolb was murdered by Capone bullets (Capone sent a $100 wreath to the funeral). After that, Touhy began...
...price of settlement, Continental Can- and rival American Can- will raise prices. But for Old Strategist Clay, that is only withdrawing to a well-prepared position. Continental has made two price cuts, totaling 3%, in the last year, will have to restore only 1½% to meet the price hikes. "On the whole," says Clay, "prices will still be below the level of early...
Last week, as his latest shipment of sheep was okayed by federal inspectors, U.S. sheep raisers called for quotas, higher tariffs, or anything else that would stop the shipments. Said rival California Rancher Clay Broadbent: "Either we stop the Australian sheep-or regulate the flow of them-or it will mean the end of the American sheep industry...
...instruments of government power. Apparently, most other African labor officials feel the same way. Delegates representing Nigeria, the Belgian Congo, the French territories and many other parts of Africa voted overwhelmingly at Lagos to form an All-Africa union under Mboya's leadership, totally ignoring a rival group formed by Nkrumah's rump session in Accra...