Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...loss, some exchange experts thought that the pound might be in for more trouble, unless Britain removed her strict controls on its use. Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...
City Editor Gene Lowall of the Denver Post (circ. 237,061) collects crimes with the passion that other men lavish on postage stamps and Ming vases. A onetime crime reporter himself, he likes to swap stories with Denver cops, spends his spare hours reading and writing whodunits, calls his reporters "my agents." In 2½ years on the city desk, Lowall has done his best to make Publisher Palmer Hoyt's Post read like an up-to-date version of the old Police Gazette. To charges that he overplays crime, Lowall answers: "No matter how cheap a crime story...
...days of helping students swap football tickets amongst themselves has proves the Student Council's newest bureau a popular innovation, Thomas A. Unverferth '51, co-chairman of the Student Welfare Committee, said last night...
There has been considerable evidence to back them up. At Key West the Navy had clinched an authorization for a flush-decked 63,000 ton carrier, in a swap for giving up strategic bombing to the Air Force. But Secretary of Defense Louis. Johnson ordered the ship off the ways soon after he took office...