Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parachutes and Stockings. Primemover behind this rise that carried the eleven-store Gimbel chain ahead of arch-rival R. H. Macy & Co. as well as Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, is greying Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 59, robust, genial patriarch of the Gimbel clan. He had a hunch that the war would boom retail sales. So he turned his buyers loose with instructions to order all they could of consumer goods which would be among the first casualties...
...Inquisition's hirelings, Diego de Silva, "a large black bat transformed into a man," wanted the de Vargas acres. He was also Pedro's rival for the hand of lovely, aristocratic Luisa de Carvajal ("the perfume of her clothes set Pedro's pulses throbbing"). Pedro was accused of trying to bribe the Inquisition. Outfighting his pursuers, Pedro fled to Mexico and the service of Cortes...
Bill Brogan told them that their gangs were fighting for Tojo and Hitler. "Boys," he said, "let's fight this war, not each other." He made the rival gang leaders shake hands. "We are going to get into one big mob," he said...
...became San Antonio's now-flourishing "Junior Deputies of America," a law-abiding & law-enforcing corps of more than 800 kids aged 14 to 18. Brogan developed his first leaders from the rival gang captains, reconciled at the first meeting to each other and to the law. The first chief is now at an Army Air Corps gunners' school, his successor in the Navy at San Diego. From their office in Bexar County court house, the Junior Deputies have...
Ever since last year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club...