Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casino at the Havana Riviera brings the Cuban capital's tony gambling spots to ten, all authorized by free-and-easy laws aimed at making Havana a strong Eastern competitor for the West's Las Vegas. Batista's government lent $6,000,000 toward the $14 million that the hotel cost. Exactly who supplied how much of the rest of the money is a deep secret; the directors include Toronto Hotelman Harry Smith. Edward Levinson of Las Vegas' Fremont, and a Cuban Senator whose brother happens to be a Cabinet minister...
...suffer through their penalties for past sins and 2) quit the P.C.C. on June 30, 1959. Other conference schools immediately began to talk of resigning. Faced with the probable dissolution of the P.C.C., the Tournament of Roses Committee may soon make new arrangements for choosing a Western Rose Bowl competitor...
...Hero? A blond bull who packs 214 Ibs. on his short-necked, 6-ft. frame, Pitt Alumnus Schmidt is a quiet, serious competitor. He works hard at keeping in shape (a habit that makes him something of an exception among the rowdy Lions), and in five years of pro ball has shown a remarkable talent for holding onto his looks. "Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles broke my nose in 1953," says Joe modestly, "I've worn a face guard. Not that I've got any beauty to lose-but why be a hero...
...agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...
...from letting the question rest, Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney wanted to know why all steel makers generally set the same prices. Humphrey said that National's policy is to "quote prices as near the prices of our competitors as we can learn so that we will get at least as much as they do, and we ought to be ashamed if we do not." Would National then follow a price rise set by U.S. Steel or any other competitor, asked Kefauver. Answered Humphrey: "Of course we would attempt to get that price...