Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman reversed himself. He announced that, if Congress insisted, he would accept the authority to control prices-but only on a stand-by basis. House Banking & Currency Committee Chairman Brent Spence stitched together a new bill along these lines. Then the fight began over the rival Spence and Kunkel bills...
...ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when its two new luxury passenger liners, the Independence and the Constitution, are put in service...
...European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane had to raise his rates to avoid ruin. Gehan wangled so much tobacco trade that the line cornered some 80% of all the Turkish-type tobacco freight to the U.S. Slater sold off slower ships, bought faster ones, by 1939 was showing a profit without help...
...most horse races, a whip lash in the face is considered bad manners, at least. When it happened twice last week to a jockey in Siena, Italy, he quit and let his whip-wielding rival win. Instead of being barred for life for such tactics, the winner was wined & dined, and a sonnet composed in his honor was distributed throughout the town...
...pose as his son. Jean turns out to be an aspiring singer who can wiggle her assets on a nightclub floor-and switch right back to being as prim as Little Red Riding Hood. Douglas' problem: to go straight for her sake without inviting trouble from his arch rival, Pretty Willie (Cesar Romero...