Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
...Guns. Founder Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...eight years ago, not a single slugging first-baseman had reached the majors. The dearth of new catchers was just as serious. There wasn't a hard-hitting catcher in either league or one who could whip the ball down to second-base with the authority of a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane...
...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...
Died. Andrew Lawrence Somers, 54, longtime Democratic Representative from New York (since 1925) who helped steer F.D.R.'s gold-devaluation bill through the House (1934); of a liver ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Roman Catholic Somers was one of Zionism's most active champions in Congress, led the fight for a $150 million loan to Israel...