Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation...
Pressure. Most of it came from U.S. gold miners and such big gold-producing nations as Canada and South Africa. Their argument: at the present price of $35 an ounce, gold mining is unprofitable, and production is slumping. Furthermore, it is unfair to hold down the price of gold when all other commodities have risen...
...trouble was that Rexall's expansion program had been badly timed. Older, smaller stores had been closed up before the big new superstores could be opened. On top of that, many a small store was sold at a heavy loss simply to get rid of it while the new ones cost far more to build and operate than was expected...
...statutory requirement for tax exemption for colleges). A court test, brought by Mueller, has not been decided. If the Government wins the case, it will slap a bill for back taxes on all the company's profits since the sale, and presumably go after some of the other big deals...
...just completed the $3.8 million Du Pont Circle underpass. On the White House job, he has to contract to complete it in 660 calendar days. He feels sure he can do it, though he won't have room to use more than 300 workers at a time. His big worry: dodging the souvenir hunters...