Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Second Division at Fort Benning, Ga. Next year, if all goes better with the armored force than with the rest of the defense program, two more divisions will be organized. At least two, perhaps six more will follow. Even then the U. S. armored force will be a puny rival of Germany's land fleets, which now have twelve full divisions, 55,000 tanks-and no Mae Wests...
Sydney's press feuds bitterly with Melbourne's. When Sir Keith, as Director of Information, issued decrees requiring newspapers to print anything the Ministry gave them, Sydney's press howled. It accused Sir Keith of using his official powers to muzzle rival newspapers. Cried the Sydney Telegraph in a page 1 editorial: "He is so used to getting a docile 'Yes, Sir Keith' from those who trot at his beck and call in Melbourne . . . that he expected the whole Australian people to bow down humbly and submit in the same...
Only fly in Benny's rich ointment last week was his difficulty in collaborating with Fred Allen in the radio promotion of Love Thy Neighbor. Allen is now a rival of Eddie Cantor, who is handled by the same agency that handles Benny. If Benny should team up with Allen on a show, it would obviously do Cantor no good. Consequently the agency would dearly love to squelch the feud it once promoted...
...coat for the wife. Needing a fancy jewel to decorate its year's offerings, Columbia allotted it $1,500,000. Producer-Director Ruggles hiked his company off to a location near Tucson, battled weather, dust and sickness last summer until his costs had mounted to $2,250,000. Rival studios, shaving the bumps off their budgets, are now anxiously eying its reception...
...silence Wall Street suffered when the rival Chicago Stock Exchange added one hour to its trading period, thus got a bigger share of the nation's stock trading. New York has pondered adding an hour to trading, rejected it because many afternoon papers might drop their financial pages if closing prices came any later...