Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Minnesota's Gophers play host to the Crimson on the nights of December 29 and 20 in Minneapolis. With ten returning lettermen, a senior transfer star, and their own rink for the first time in 29 years, the Gophers will afford stiff competition. Former Chicago Blackhawiks star center, Gopher Coach Dec Romnes will oppose former Bruin star Weiland again. Last year the Gophers won only five out of 16 games...
Charles Sawyer, 63, Secretary of Commerce, is keeper of the bridge connecting the Government with U.S. industry and business. Stiff and ambitious, he had hoped to grab the power that went to Stu Symington. He is responsible for much of the national production effort, e.g., he oversees the new National Production Authority. He also controls the nation's exports & imports and such enterprises as the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau system, the U.S. highway system and inland waterways. He is a conservative lawyer with a long moneymaking record as promoter-businessman...
When Kaiser-Frazer last week got a new $25 million RFC loan to help keep it solvent until it can sell its big backlog of cars, the terms were stiff. (K-F already owes RFC $43 million.) RFC ordered K-F to: 1) cut production from 800 to 600 cars a day; 2) raise no prices without RFC consent; 3) pay off the loan with 90% of the wholesale selling price of each car as it is taken out of storage...
...industrial system, is expected to top 35 million metric tons this year. (U.S. production: 262 million.) The Balkan satellites may divert two or three million more tons to Russia. The rich oilfields of Iran and Iraq would double Russia's oil output, but the Soviet Union would meet stiff U.S. and British opposition if it tried to seize them...
...tung's government reacted to the U.N. concessions as Communist governments usually react to any signs of weakness. From Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai came a stiff message refusing the U.N. invitation to send delegates to discuss Chinese intervention in Korea. But, in answer to a previous Security Council invitation, Chou agreed to send delegates to discuss what Chou called U.S. "aggression on Formosa." Besides discussing Formosa, Chou suggested, his delegates ought to be given a chance to accuse the U.S. of "armed intervention" in Korea...