Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly to any part of the world, at his superior's command...
...bull market kept right on growing. On three successive days last week, trading topped 2,000,000 shares, making it the most active week since the big rise of May 1948. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.37 points to 198.05, the highest since August 1946. Most spectacular rise: Superior Oil Co. (California) which in three days jumped 69½ points to 227 on the news of a plan to split it into two gas & oil companies. Wall Streeters now expect the next test of the market at 200. If the bull gets over that hurdle, he might run pretty...
...Thousand Men. A wild boom began as a horde of lease-hungry oil speculators and scores of Yant's once disgruntled suckers (many of whom had never filed their deeds) converged on the canyon. The results were spectacular. Amid angry litigation set off by the rush, the California" superior court reversed a law which allowed but one well to the acre, and oil derricks began to rise on Yant's old subdivision like quills on a porcupine's back. In less than a week, 44 drilling rigs were trucked up the single road to the field...
Dunster ever came a handicap in height with superior speed, and took their game from a tall but slow Eliot team. The score stood at 10-6 for the Funsters after the first half, but the Elephants were held to four points during the latter half while Duster piled up 14 points to run away with the game, 24-10. Duane Lanszerk of the Funsters took high scoring honors...
...train," Moncaster told his superior officers, "and I went to sleep. The next thing I knew, I was walking around a town seeing Russian soldiers on the street. At first the Russians didn't notice me, but on the third day they turned up at my girl friend's house and arrested...