Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...U.S.L.T.A. committee member, she steamed, had not said right out that Althea would not be accepted. But, he had said, she would have to make a strong showing in major eastern tournaments preceding the "big do at Forest Hills," and most of those tournaments were by invitation. Wrote indignant Miss Marble: "If she is not invited to participate in them, as my committeeman freely predicts, then she obviously will be unable to prove anything at all, and it will be the reluctant duty of the committee to reject her entry at Forest Hills...
Willys-Overland was handed a $22 million order for 8,350 jeeps, its biggest in five years. To Reo Motors went a contract to make 3,900 "Eager-Beaver" heavy-duty trucks for the Army at a cost of $24 million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...
...days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after the market had closed...
...keeping a close eye on costs (the airline has no headquarters of its own, shares offices with a state-subsidized steamship company), Pacelli, Mazzarini and Gallo are able to undercut the railroads on some domestic routes and still make a profit. L.A.I, has paid a 5% dividend to its' stockholders every year...
Editor Tuttle's Fishing, a tuna-sized condensation of the whale-sized Fisherman's Encyclopedia, will not make the fish's lot any easier. But it should be as welcome to the nation's fishermen as a fast riffle on a mountain stream. Like command-level planners marking out a country for conquest, the 30 fly-wise, smooth-casting experts who helped to put Fishing together have methodically divided up their subject under such topics as "Game Fishes," "Where To Fish," and "When and How to Fish"-by fly-casting, trolling or spinning; in lakes, offshore...