Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unseasonably warm rains washed out the '56 hockey game against the Blue, while no snow forced the Yardling skiers to cancel their meet with Putney School...
...Helsinki, Millionaire Shipowner Antti Wihuri, frightened by the sudden glare of publicity, tried to decide whether he should risk his ship and the wrath of the West by ordering the Wiima on, or break his contract with the Communists by ordering her to cancel delivery. At week's end, distraught Owner Wihuri fled to the privacy of a hospital bed, insisting as he went that the cargo which the Wiima took aboard in Red Rumania really wasn't aviation oil, but domestic oil for the lamps of China. "That's what it says in my contract...
Last week General Templer decided that the war was going well enough for him to cancel all standing information rewards. The decision, explained the government, was influenced by "a desire to return to normal." There is still a chance to earn some $80,000 by capturing No. 1 Malayan Communist Leader Chin Peng before the March 1 deadline; after that an informer will have to consider duty its own reward...
...doing so ... The incident you referred to in your letter is the booking of Limelight by the RKO Theaters Corp. This is a separate corporation . . . Nevertheless ... I have been making a most concerted effort to persuade the management of the theater corporation to take the necessary legal measures to cancel all bookings of Limelight...
...press gave Page One treatment to an announcement about itself. For weeks, capital reporters have been telling each other that Ike was going to cancel out the give & take press conferences (and some of Ike's advisers thought he should). Last week, as his first official act, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty reassured the newsmen. The President not only will stick to the old schedule of press conferences but also is trying to work out some way to talk to the people via television, perhaps once a month...