Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answer to Body Snatchers. As the towns began to grow, the tradesmen began to chase the corpses. Before long advertisements like that of Z. Cotton & Son of Cambridge, N.Y. ("Dentists. Undertakers. Picture Frames a Speciality") were a common sight. Sometimes the commercial combinations had a sinister sound as in the case of one Hollis Chaffin of Providence, R.I., an undertaker who ran an old folks' home on the side...
Within an hour last night, bicycles were reported missing from three different Yard locations. A bright-thinking freshman, John Demos, crossing the Yard at 8:45, saw five boys take three bikes from Holworthy. There were no police on duty there, so he gave chase himself. But the thieves, riding bicycles, left him behind...
...Fighting John" Harding, as tough in action as he is amiable in appearance, helped Montgomery chase Rommel across North Africa, helped Alexander take Italy, more recently presided in London over Britain's crackdown on the Communists in Malaya and the Mau Mau in Kenya. That a soldier of his rank and record should be dispatched to little Cyprus alarmed some Greeks and aroused many to anger. The official Radio Athens, reflecting the continuing Greek irritation over the U.S. vote against U.N. debate of the Cyprus matter, reacted with an anti-American twist: "For every Cypriot [Harding] kills or imprisons...
...police directed the students to "get out after those guys, tackle them and sit on them" until they arrived. At 9 p.m. about 20 freshmen from the western part of the Yard swarmed outside looking for the pair. They spotted the men in the Yard and gave chase. But the swindlers escaped...
Although most bankers support the merger trend, they are aware of the theoretical dangers to competition. But few of them feel that competition is being hurt-yet. The indications are just the opposite; mergers have made more banks than ever capable of competing. Said Chase Manhattan's Chairman John J. McCloy before the House Antitrust Subcommittee: "Any attempt to hold banks in a static mold, impervious to the dynamic forces reshaping the rest of society, would be to render them less useful and gradually impotent...