Word: intermountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand. A.P.'s attorneys tried to lay the complaint to Eccles' "personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...
Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
Keith, 95 lb., fights most of his exhibitions with his father, Morris Nuttall, who used to be an intermountain lightweight champion. Morris Nuttall started training the boy in earnest when he was eleven, keeps him on a diet, sees to it that his muscles develop gradually enough to prevent any tightening up-the "boxer's bugaboo." In exhibitions with other boys-most of them his seniors by two or three years-Keith has beaten fighters more than half again his weight...