Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked suddenly sincere. "I'm not going to be falsely modest. All right? I've been nominated for the Academy Award eight times, and won it three times, for Easter Parade, American in Paris, and Merry Wives of Windsor...
...Clary Jr. ruled that the railroads violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by engaging in "one large, ever-growing conspiracy" to destroy the competition of long-haul trucks. He awarded only nominal damages of 18? each to 37 trucking companies, but said he would award additional damages plus attorneys' fees and court costs to the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. He invited the truckers to draw up an injunction for the court to issue to curb the rails' anti-truck campaign. Wrote Judge Clary, in an acid 200-page decision: "There is a strong possibility that the defendants are ready...
...award cited Ulich "for great and immeasurable services, in the past and in the present rendered to the German people...
Winner of the 1954 Atlantic Monthly Award for the best short story by a new author, Gill has since written stories for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review. He will devote some of his time to work on a novel...
...Catholic singled out for praise at the conference: St. Louis Real Estate Man Oliver Lafayette Parks (an old airman who founded Parks Air College, donated it after the war to the Catholic St. Louis University). Parks received the church's World Mission Award for popularizing mission work. His program: an organization of about 1,200 businessmen, each of whom donates 25? a day to missions by cutting the price of his lunch or otherwise not spending a quarter, offers a daily prayer for missions...